Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to Grateful Events (“we”, “us”, “our”, or “the Company”). We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors and service users; this Privacy Policy (“Policy”) explains how we collect, use, share, and protect your personal information when you use our website located at [Your Website URL] (the “Service”). This Policy is intended to fulfill our legal obligations under various data protection laws, including but not limited to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and other applicable privacy legislation.

2. Information We Collect

Personal Data: Includes but is not limited to your first and last name, email address, photographs you upload, contact details, and any other identifiable information you provide us when you register, create an account, or interact with our Service.

Usage Information: Log data like your IP address, browser type, operating system, access times, pages viewed, and clickstream data to understand how you utilize our Service.

Cookies and Similar Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect data about your interactions with our Service. You can choose to accept or decline cookies through your browser settings.

3. Legal Basis for Processing Your Information

Contractual Necessity: For the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.

Legitimate Interests: To conduct our business in ways you might reasonably expect, which includes improving our website, preventing fraud, and ensuring network and information security.

Consent: Where we rely on consent for processing, you have the right to withdraw this consent at any time.

Legal Obligations: Where we are required to process your data to comply with legal obligations.

4. Use of Your Information

Provision of Services: To enable you to use our photo sharing platform effectively.

Communication: To send you service-related emails, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages.

Analytics: To analyze user behavior to improve our Service’s features and functionalities.

Marketing: With your express consent, we may send promotional materials; you can opt-out at any time.

Compliance: To comply with legal or regulatory requirements, to protect our rights, or to respond to lawful requests from public authorities.

5. Sharing Your Information

We will not share, sell, or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. However, we may disclose your data:

Corporate Transactions: In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

To Our Service Providers: Including but not limited to hosting providers, analytics providers, payment processors, who are bound by confidentiality obligations.

For Legal Reasons: In response to a subpoena, court order, or similar legal process, or when necessary to protect our rights, property, or safety of our users or others.

6. Data Security

We employ industry-standard security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. Despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your data.

7. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this Policy, including for satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, the purposes for which we process your personal data, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means.

8. Your Data Protection Rights

You have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data:

Right of Access: You can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Right to Rectification: You have the right to have inaccurate personal data about you corrected.
Right to Erasure (‘right to be forgotten’): You can request deletion of your data when there’s no compelling reason for its continued processing.
Right to Restrict Processing: You can ask us to stop processing your data.
Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
Right to Object: You can object to our processing of your personal data where we rely on legitimate interests.
Right to Withdraw Consent: If we rely on your consent for processing, you can withdraw this consent at any time.

Please note, these rights are not absolute, and there may be circumstances where we are legally entitled to retain or continue processing your data.

9. Children’s Privacy

Our Service is not intended for individuals under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe we have inadvertently collected such information, please contact us so we can promptly delete the data.

10. International Data Transfers

Your information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction. If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to the United States and process it there.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Effective Date” at the top. We encourage you to review this Policy periodically for any changes.

12. Contact Information

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or to exercise any of your data protection rights, please contact us at:

support@grateful.events

13. Dispute Resolution

If you have any concerns or disputes about our privacy practices, we aim to resolve them amicably. However, should a dispute arise, you agree to first try to resolve it with us directly. If unresolved, you may have the right to file a complaint with a Data Protection Authority or seek legal redress.

14. Governing Law

This Privacy Policy shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Illinois, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

This policy is designed to be comprehensive and protective, but it must be customized to reflect your specific business practices, data handling procedures, and the legal requirements of the jurisdictions in which you operate. Always consult with a legal professional to ensure complete compliance and to mitigate risks of litigation.