Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy covers MaharaniWeddings.com, which shall be referred to as “we”, “us”, or “our” throughout this Privacy Policy. “You” as a user of MaharaniWeddings.com, accept the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

We are committed to protecting personal and financial information disclosed to us. In the course of providing wedding planning and other related services, we will collect certain information from you. The intent of this policy is to disclose our privacy practices with regard to such information.

Information You Give Us

We require information from you in order for you to be an account holder of MaharaniWeddings.com or to be an active member or vendor of MaharaniWeddings.com. When creating an account you will be required to provide your:

• first and last name
• email address
• city and state
• billing information (members and vendors only)
• contact phone number (members and vendors only)

You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our features.

Information Automatically Stored

We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many Websites, we use “cookies,” and we obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses MaharaniWeddings.com or advertisements. 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 our affiliates’ websites or when you view or click on advertisements served by outside advertising companies and we do not have control over how they use this information.

The Help portion of your Web browser will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies. Additionally, you can disable or delete similar data in your browser. While you can read our editorial content and use certain portions of MaharaniWeddings.com without allowing cookies to be stored on your computer, these cookies allow you to take advantage of some of our essential features. We therefore recommend that you leave cookies enabled.

We may also use web beacons or small graphics to measure and improve the efficiency of the advertisements on MaharaniWeddings.com. The information gathered may include: which advertisement was shown, the date and time the advertisement was shown, and your IP address.

Use of Your Information

MaharaniWeddings.com is committed to protecting your privacy in regards to your personal and financial information. The information gathered by us is used to understand your needs and to provide you with better service. For example, the information we collected is used to:

• Improve our user features and products
• Update our database with user geographical information
• Send periodic emails to our users about promotional items, contests, special offers and announcements, including our Delightful Details newsletter.
• Contact you for market research purposes

We reserve the right to disclose to third parties information about general subscriber usage of MaharaniWeddings.com and any related services, including information gathered during your use of MaharaniWeddings.com. Any information disclosed will be in the form of aggregate data (such as overall patterns or demographic reports) that does not describe or identify any individual user. By using Delightful Deals or our other opt-in services, you hereby grant MaharaniWeddings.com permission to disclose your personal information (including name and email address) to vendors matched to your service request. These opt-in services are a matching service and does not guarantee a successful transaction. Except as provided in this Privacy Policy, we do not share, trade, sell or allow access of your personal information to any third parties.

Security

MaharaniWeddings.com is protected by industry standard SSL (Secure Socket Layers) where appropriate. We have also, through firewalls and other means, attempted to ensure the security and privacy of information disclosed by you. All sensitive personal and financial information is restricted and our employees have access to your information only to perform specific tasks. While we have in place reasonable electronic procedures that safeguard your information collected online, no system on the Internet is completely secure. As such, we encourage the use of discretion when browsing the Internet or when visiting any website, including MaharaniWeddings.com.

Links to Other Websites

We have affiliate links to many other online resources. While we do not share, trade, sell or allow access of your personal information to any third parties, we are not responsible for the practices employed by these affiliates or their websites linked to or from MaharaniWeddings.com nor the information or content contained on these third party websites. You should carefully review their privacy statements and other conditions of use and you agree you provide information or engage in transactions with these affiliates at your own risk.

Business Transfers

In the event that all or substantially all of our assets are acquired, customer information will be one of the transferred assets. Such a transfer has minimal effects on your privacy and shall not be deemed a sale or transfer of your personal information. The information you submitted remains subject to the terms of the Privacy Policy as it exists at the time of such transfer.

Protection of MaharaniWeddings.com and Others:

We will release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of MaharaniWeddings.com, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. However, this does not include selling, renting, sharing, or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information from customers for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth in this Privacy Notice.

Request of Information Held

You may request to receive any information that we have collected from you as stated by law. Please email us at privacy@MaharaniWeddings.com to receive this information. A small fee may be charged for this information.

Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, you may e-mail us at privacy@MaharaniWeddings.com.

Updates to Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason without specific notice to you.  If we revise the Privacy Policy, we will give at least 30 days’ warning by prominently displaying a notice on our Web site saying there will be changes as of a specified date, include a link to those changes and state that continued use of the Web site after that date binds the user to them.  By using our Web site subsequent to any revision of this Privacy Policy, you agree to be bound by such changes.  If you find the changes to be unacceptable, you must immediately terminate your use of this Web site and, if you wish, inform us by email that you do not wish us to use your information in any new way allowed by the changes to the Privacy Policy.  In addition, if such a change will affect your personally identifiable information, we will notify you by e-mail of the relevant change.  You should periodically check to see if this Privacy Policy has changed.

Compliance

We agree to remedy any problems arising out of failure to comply with this Privacy Policy.

Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this Privacy Policy shall be settled exclusively by arbitration in San Francisco, California in accordance with the Commercial Rules of the American Arbitration Association, and judgment upon the award rendered by the arbitrator(s) may be entered in any Court having jurisdiction.  We agree that you may participate in all such proceedings by telephone.  The New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards will apply.  Any award against us may include follow-up procedures for verifying that the attestations and assertions that we make about our privacy practices are true and that our privacy practices have been implemented as presented.

This Privacy Policy shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of California, USA, excluding California’s conflicts-of-laws rules.  Any litigation arising from or relating to this Agreement shall be brought exclusively in the jurisdiction proper for an individual residing in San Francisco, California.

Privacy Policy Effective Date:

Jun 16, 2011