Privacy, in plain words

What we collect

• Account details you give us — your name, email, and password.
• Wedding details you add — your date, budget, checklist, and the guest list you build.
• Vendor activity — the enquiries and messages you send to vendors.
• Media you upload — such as photos for your wedding website.
• Approximate location — the country your visit comes from, derived from your IP address by our hosting provider. Country only — never your precise location. See Location information.
• Business claim details — if you claim or list a wedding business, the name and role of the person claiming it, a contact email, phone number, website, and any note you add. See Claiming a business listing.
• Cookie and analytics data — described in Cookies and analytics below, and only as your choices allow.
• Daily visit counts on a couple's published wedding website — totals only, with no identifier, cookie or address attached to anyone. See Visits to a couple's wedding website.
• Marketing attribution — the campaign details in the link you arrived on, kept in your browser. See Advertising measurement.

We only collect what we need to run your workspace, and we never buy or scrape personal data.

How we use it

To set up and run your wedding workspace, connect you with vendors you choose to contact, send you service emails (like RSVP and account notices), keep the platform safe, show you the right regional notices (like which market a guide or price belongs to), verify vendors who claim a business listing, measure which ads and pages bring people to Wedyesday, and improve how Wedyesday works.

Cookies and analytics

We keep cookies to a minimum, and we split them into two groups:

• Essential cookies — needed for the site to work: your sign-in session, security protections, the country stamp that powers regional notices, and the record of your cookie choice itself. These are always on.
• Optional analytics and advertising measurement — we use Google Analytics 4 and Google Ads conversion measurement (both provided by Google LLC) to understand which pages help couples and vendors, and which ads lead to a signup, so we can improve them. These are optional everywhere.

What “optional” means depends on where you are browsing from. In the UK, the EEA, and Switzerland — or when we cannot tell where you are — analytics stay off until you choose to allow them. Everywhere else, including Australia, analytics run by default and you can switch them off at any time. Your choice is stored on your device and applies until you change it:

Visits to a couple's wedding website

If you have opened a wedding website at a wedyesday.com/w/… address, or an RSVP link a couple sent you, this section is about you.

Every published wedding website keeps a simple daily tally so the couple can see whether their guests found it: how many times the site was opened that day, how many people reached the RSVP page, how many replies came back, and how many outbound links were clicked. Alongside those counts we record which broad kind of place the visit arrived from — a search engine, a social network, a messaging app, an email inbox, another website, or typed straight in.

That is the entire record, and it is not about you. We do not set a cookie for it, store anything on your device for it, give you an identifier, or keep your IP address, your device details or the web address you arrived from. Because there is no identifier, these counts cannot be traced back to a person or joined to anything else — not by the couple, not by us. It also means the couple is shown views, not visitors: if you open the site twice, that is two.

The counting is not affected by your cookie choice, because it does not use cookies or read anything from your device. The tally is kept for about thirteen months and then deleted automatically. Whether a couple can see their counts depends on an optional add-on they may buy; the counting itself is the same either way, and either way it holds nothing about you.

Requests from bots, crawlers and link previews are filtered out before anything is counted, so a couple's numbers reflect people rather than software.

Advertising measurement

Wedyesday advertises online, so we measure which ads and pages lead to a signup. When analytics are allowed, we keep a marketing attribution record in your browser's local storage, on your own device. It holds the campaign details in the link you arrived on (utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign, utm_term, utm_content and utm_id), whether an ad click identifier such as gclid was present and which network it came from, the site that referred you, the page you landed on, and when. We attach those details to the events we send to Google Analytics 4, which is what our Google Ads conversion reporting is built from. Google LLC processes that analytics and conversion data on our behalf, and Google's own tags may set advertising cookies to connect an ad click to a later signup.

All of this follows the choice above. If analytics are off, the Google tags are never loaded and no attribution record is written; advertising storage stays denied. The record lives only on your device until you change it or clear your browser's site data, and you can switch analytics off at any time using your cookie choice.

We use this only to measure and improve our advertising. We never sell your personal data, we don't build advertising profiles about you or run retargeting, and we never hand your workspace, guest list, or vendor enquiries to advertising networks.

Location information

When you visit Wedyesday, our hosting provider derives the country your request comes from using your IP address, at the moment of the request. We keep only the two-letter country code, in a cookie on your device, and use it for two things: showing the right cookie notice for your region, and letting you know when a guide, a price, or the vendor directory belongs to a different market from yours. We never ask your browser or device for your precise location, and we don't build location histories.

Your privacy is the default

We never sell your personal data. Your guest list and wedding details are private to you and the people you invite. A vendor only sees an enquiry when you send it, and your wedding website is only visible to people you share the link with.

Connecting an AI assistant

You can connect Wedyesday to an AI assistant such as ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or Gemini. This is entirely optional, and nothing about your account changes unless you choose to connect one.

• Without connecting an account, an assistant can search our public vendor directory, read our regional cost guides, and build a wedding plan. We don't know who you are, and nothing is saved to Wedyesday.
• If you connect your account, you sign in on wedyesday.com and approve the connection on a page that names the assistant. The assistant never receives your password. It receives a token that only works with Wedyesday, and only for the permissions shown on that page.
• What a connected assistant can read is what you can read: your checklist, your budget totals, and counts from your guest list. It can add checklist tasks and mark them done only if you granted that permission.
• Your guests' email addresses and phone numbers are never sent to an assistant. Assistants get headcounts and group names; contact details stay in your dashboard. Your guests didn't choose your assistant, so we don't share their details with it.

Anything an assistant retrieves passes through the company that runs it — OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Google or whoever you connected — and is then handled under their privacy policy, including whatever they do with your conversation. We have no control over that, which is why the choice to connect is yours and the permissions are shown before you approve.

You can disconnect at any time from your assistant's settings, or by signing out of Wedyesday — either one stops its access on the next request. We keep no copy of your conversation with the assistant. More about Wedyesday for AI assistants.

Claiming a business listing

Wedding vendors can claim an existing listing, or create a new one, free of charge. When a claim is submitted we collect the name and role of the person claiming the business, a contact email address, a phone number, the business website, and any supporting note they add. A person at Wedyesday reviews it to confirm the claimant owns or is authorised to represent that business before the claim is approved. We use these details only to verify the claim and to contact the claimant about it — never for advertising, and we don't sell or share them.

Wedyesday Matrimony

Wedyesday Matrimony is a separate part of our service for people looking for a life partner. A matrimony profile can include details you choose to share — such as community, mother tongue, religion, diet, or lifestyle — that Australian law treats as sensitive information. We collect these only with your consent, show them only as your profile visibility settings allow, and never use them for advertising. If you verify your identity, the documents you provide are used solely for that check and are deleted from active storage once the check is complete.

How we store and protect it

Your information is stored securely on encrypted, industry-standard cloud infrastructure located in Australia (AWS Sydney region), with access limited to what is needed to run the service. Website pages are delivered through a global content delivery network so the site loads quickly wherever you are; payment details are handled by Stripe and never stored by us.

Your choices and rights

You can access, update, or delete your information at any time — from your account settings, or by emailing support@wedyesday.com. When you close your account we delete or de-identify your personal information, except where we are required to keep it by law.

If you are visiting from the UK, the EEA, or Switzerland, you also have the rights those laws give you — to access, correct, export, or erase your data, to object to or restrict processing, and to complain to your local supervisory authority. In Australia, you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) if you believe we have mishandled your information — though we'd ask you to talk to us first so we can put it right.

Contact us

Questions about your privacy? Email us any time at support@wedyesday.com. We may update this policy as Wedyesday grows, and we will post any changes here with a new “last updated” date. Our terms of service are at wedyesday.com/terms.