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Coastal Bride

The South's Most Stylish Wedding Blog

Privacy Policy and Disclosure

WHO WE ARE:
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us at:
Coastal Bride
acoastalbride.com
Gillian@acoastalbride.com
Last Updated: May 24, 2018
This Application collects some Personal Data from its Users.

DISCLOSURE:
This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. This blog may accept forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Coastal Bride does not hold the copyright to photographs used on our website, except where otherwise noted. Each photo’s copyright belongs to the respective photographer credited. Photos used on Coastal Bride are used with the knowledge and permission of the respective photographer.
If, for any reason, you would like a photo used on our website to be removed, please contact me at
Gillian@acoastalbride.com.

BANNER ADS:
Some of the advertisements that appear on Coastal Bride are delivered to you by national internet advertising and application companies such as DFP. This company utilizes certain technologies to deliver advertisements and marketing messages and to collect anonymous information about your visit to our site, including information about the banner ads they display, and cookies they place on your computer and your IP address. To find out more information please visit Google DFP privacy policy here: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

AFFILIATES:
This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.
This blog abides by word of mouth marketing standards. We believe in honesty of relationship, opinion and identity. The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this blog. That content, advertising space or post will be clearly identified as paid or sponsored content.
The owner of this blog is compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though the owner of this blog receives compensation for our posts or advertisements, we always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the bloggers’ own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.
This blog does not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest.


Personal Data collected for the following purposes and using the following services:
Analytics: Google Analytics
Personal Data: Cookies and Usage Data

Commercial Affiliation: Amazon Affiliation, RewardStyle, CJ Affiliate by Conversant and ShareAsale
Personal Data: Cookies and Usage Data

Contacting the User: Mailing list or newsletter
Personal Data: Cookies, email address, first name and website

Displaying content from external platforms: Instagram Widget
Personal Data: Cookies and Usage Data

Interaction with external social networks and platforms: Facebook Like button and social widgets, Pinterest “Pin it” button and social widgets, Twitter Tweet button and social widgets
Personal Data: Cookies and Usage Data

Platform services and hosting: WordPress.org
Personal Data: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service

SPAM Protection: Akismet
Personal Data: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service


Contact Information: Owner and Data Controller
Gillian Ellis Photography LLC Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 USA
Owner contact email: Gillian@acoastalbride.com

Types of Data collected

Among the types of Personal Data that this Application collects, by itself or through third parties, there are: Cookies, Usage Data, email address, first name and website.


Complete details on each type of Personal Data collected are provided in the dedicated sections of this privacy policy or by specific explanation texts displayed prior to the Data collection.

The Personal Data may be freely provided by the User, or, in case of Usage Data, collected automatically when using this Application.

All Data requested by this Application is mandatory and failure to provide this Data may make it impossible for this Application to provide its services. In cases where this Application specifically states that some Data is not mandatory, Users are free not to communicate this Data without any consequences on the availability or the functioning of the service.

Users who are uncertain about which Personal Data is mandatory are welcome to contact the Owner.

Any use of Cookies – or of other tracking tools – by this Application or by the owners of third-party services used by this Application serves the purpose of providing the service required by the User, in addition to any other purposes described in the present document and in the Cookie Policy, if available.

Users are responsible for any third-party Personal Data obtained, published or shared through this Application and confirm that they have the third party’s consent to provide the Data to the Owner.


MODE AND PLACE OF PROCESSING THE DATA

Methods of processing

The Data Controller processes the Data of Users in a proper manner and shall take appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the Data.
The Data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the Data Controller, in some cases, the Data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation of the site (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as third-party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Owner. The updated list of these parties may be requested from the Data Controller at any time.

Place
The Data is processed at the Data Controller’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved with the processing are located. For further information, please contact the Data Controller.

Retention time
The Data is kept for the time necessary to provide the service requested by the User, or stated by the purposes outlined in this document, and the User can always request that the Data Controller suspend or remove the data.

The use of the collected Data

The Data concerning the User is collected to allow the Owner to provide its services, as well as for the following purposes: SPAM protection, Commercial affiliation, Content commenting, Interaction with external social networks and platforms, Analytics, Displaying content from external platforms, Contacting the User and Platform services and hosting.The Personal Data used for each purpose is outlined in the specific sections of this document.


DETAILED INFORMATION ON THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA

Personal Data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services:

Analytics

The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behavior.
Google Analytics (Google Inc.)
Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Application, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.


Commercial Affiliation
This type of service allows this Application to display advertisements for third-party products or services. Ads can be displayed either as advertising links or as banners using various kinds of graphics.
Clicks on the icon or banner posted on the Application are tracked by the third-party services listed below, and are shared with this Application.
For details of which data are collected, please refer to the privacy policy of each service.

Amazon Affiliation (Amazon)
Amazon Affiliation is a commercial affiliation service provided by Amazon.com Inc.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy
CJ Affiliate by Conversant (Conversant, Inc.)
CJ Affiliate by Conversant is a commercial affiliation service provided by Conversant, Inc.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy
RewardStyle (RewardStyle Inc.)
RewardStyle is a commercial affiliation service provided by RewardStyle Inc.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States- Privacy Policy
ShareAsale (ShareAsale.com Inc.)
ShareAsale is a banner commercial affiliation service provided by ShareAsale.com Inc.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy


Mailing list or newsletter (this Application)
By registering on the mailing list or for the newsletter, the User’s email address will be added to the contact list of those who may receive email messages containing information of commercial or promotional nature concerning this Application. Your email address might also be added to this list as a result of signing up to this Application or after making a purchase.
Personal Data collected: Cookies, email address, first name and website.


Displaying content from external platforms
This type of service allows you to view content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of this Application and interact with them.
This type of service might still collect web traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.

Instagram widget (Instagram, Inc.)
Instagram is an image visualization service provided by Instagram, Inc. that allows this Application to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy


Interaction with external social networks and platforms
This type of service allows interaction with social networks or other external platforms directly from the pages of this Application.
The interaction and information obtained through this Application are always subject to the User’s privacy settings for each social network.
This type of service might still collect traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.

Facebook Like button and social widgets (Facebook, Inc.)
The Facebook Like button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Facebook social network provided by Facebook, Inc.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy

Pinterest “Pin it” button and social widgets (Pinterest)
The Pinterest “Pin it” button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Pinterest platform provided by Pinterest Inc.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy

Twitter Tweet button and social widgets (Twitter, Inc.)
The Twitter Tweet button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Twitter social network provided by Twitter, Inc.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy


Platform services and hosting
These services have the purpose of hosting and running key components of this Application, therefore allowing the provision of this Application from within a unified platform. Such platforms provide a wide range of tools to the Owner – e.g. analytics, user registration, commenting, database management, e-commerce, payment processing – that imply the collection and handling of Personal Data. Some of these services work through geographically distributed servers, making it difficult to determine the actual location where the Personal Data are stored.

WordPress.org (Automattic Inc.)
WordPress.org is a platform provided by Automattic Inc. that allows the Owner to build, run and host this Application.
Personal Data collected: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy


SPAM protection
This type of service analyzes the traffic of this Application, potentially containing Users’ Personal Data, with the purpose of filtering it from parts of traffic, messages and content that are recognized as SPAM.Akismet (Automattic Inc.)
Akismet is a SPAM protection service provided by Automattic Inc.
Personal Data collected: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy


Hi! I am Gillian, the editor of Coastal Bride. I hope our real weddings and DIY projects inspire you to have a unique and happy wedding!

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