Welcome to weddingsbymaria.com (hereinafter “weddingsbymaria.com”, “the Site” or “this Site”). Weddings by Maria is a tradename of Walsh Phillips, Inc., a North Dakota corporation, and this Site is owned and operated by Walsh Phillips, Inc. Weddings by Maria and Walsh Phillips, Inc. will hereinafter be referred to collectively as Weddings by Maria. Please review the following Weddings by Maria privacy policy designed for your safety and protection.

How We Protect Your Privacy

The security of your personal information is very important to us. We never sell or rent your personal information to any third parties under any circumstances. We value your trust very highly, and will work to protect the security and privacy of any personal information you provide to us and will only use it as we have described in our Privacy Policy.

What Personal Information We Collect

As set forth in more detail below, Weddings by Maria collects personal information that you provide when using this Site. This information includes your first and last name, email address and a password when you create your weddingsbymaria.com account. We may ask you to confirm your personal information if you contact us by phone, e-mail, online or by any other means. This will allow us to protect your confidentiality by verifying your identity.

When you make a purchase from weddingsbymaria.com, we collect your name and payment method information, such as credit card information. We collect this information in order to bill you for your purchase. We also collect information that allows us to ship your order. This includes the name, address, and phone number of the intended recipient(s).

Contacting Weddings by Maria

If you wish to contact us for any reason, you may initiate contact through e-mail. The current e-mail addresses can be located on the contact us page of this Site. You may also choose to use the contact form located on the same page of the Site.

Other Times We May Collect Personal Information

From time to time, Weddings by Maria may conduct surveys, contests, and sweepstakes via this Site, e-mail, other media, or through Weddings by Maria affiliates. If you participate, we may collect your name, email address, mailing address and other personal information. We will never sell or rent such information to any third parties.

How We Use Your Personal Information

Information we collect on weddingsbymaria.com may be used to enhance your shopping experience in the following ways:

· Deliver merchandise and services that you purchase online
· Register you as a member of weddingsbymaria.com
· Prevent fraud and bill you for your purchases
· Confirm your orders
· Respond to your customer-service inquiries or requests
· Communicate great values and featured items to you
· Find and stock the products you want
· Customize your shopping experience
· Comply with valid legal procedures, requirements, regulations, or statutes

When and With Whom We Share Your Personal Information

We never sell or rent your personal information to any third parties under any circumstances. We will share personal customer information and/or purchase history only with our agents, representatives, service providers, suppliers, affiliates and contractors for limited purposes, including but not limited to, fulfilling customer orders; offering certain products and services in connection with this Site; communicating to customers; providing customer service; enhancing and improving customers’ shopping experience; administering or facilitating surveys, contests, or sweepstakes; offering targeted marketing communications to users that opted-in to receive such communications; enabling access to our affiliates’ web sites; providing a personalized shopping experience; preventing fraud; and completing payment method processing.

Further, Weddings by Maria has established an affiliate program whereby affiliates who refer you to weddingsbymaria.com receive a percentage of the purchase price of the goods and services you purchase on weddingsbymaria.com. As part of the affiliate program, Weddings by Maria provides affiliates limited information regarding your purchases, including the date of purchase, items purchased and purchase price. Weddings by Maria does not provide its affiliates your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, credit card information, or any other personal or identifying information in the course of its affiliate program. If you enter a promotional code to receive a discount on your purchase, free shipping, etc., you agree that Weddings by Maria is entitled to provide information regarding your purchase to the affiliate that provided you the promotional code.

Aside from the purposes described above, we will never share your personal information with any other third parties unless we have your express permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the disclosure is required to prevent harm or injury (such as product recalls, fraud, claims or other liability) or to comply with valid legal processes (subpoenas, warrants) or as required by law.

How You Can Control the Use of Your Personal Information

You can modify or delete your personal information anytime. Simply go to “My Account”. Log in with your username and password, then click “View or change my account information”, “View or change entries in my address book”, or “Change my account password” and edit or delete whatever information you wish.

Do not share your weddingsbymaria.com password with anyone. Other than on this Site, Weddings by Maria will never ask you for your password.

How We Protect the Security of Your Personal Information

The security of your personal information is very important to us. In our efforts to protect your online transactions, we use a technology called Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). If your browser is capable of SSL (and most are), your personal information will be automatically encrypted, or encoded, before it is sent over the Internet.

Ultimately, your personal information is protected by the password you created when you created an account at weddingsbymaria.com (or another password you chose after changing a previous password). Please keep this password confidential. No representative of Weddings by Maria will ever ask you for your password. The confidentiality of your password is yours to protect. Simply go to “My Account”. Log in with your username and password, then click “Change my account password” and edit or delete the current password.

Cookies and Other Computer Information

When you visit weddingsbymaria.com, you will be assigned a permanent “cookie” (a small text file) to be stored on your computer’s hard drive. The purpose of this cookie is to identify you when you visit the Site so that we can enhance and customize your online shopping experience.

You can choose to browse on weddingsbymaria.com without cookies. However, without these identifier files you will not be able to complete a purchase or take advantage of certain features of the Site. These features include storing your shopping cart for later use and, in the future, providing a more personalized shopping experience. Each browser is different, so check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.

We also collect certain technical information from your computer each time you request a page during a visit to weddingsbymaria.com. This information may include your Internet Protocol (IP) address, your computer’s operating system, browser type and the address of a referring Web site, if any. We collect this information to enhance the quality of your experience during your visit to the Site and will not sell or rent this information to any third parties.

How You Can Decide What Marketing Communications You Receive From Us

Weddings by Maria may from time to time send you e-mail messages or other forms of marketing communications describing new items, featured merchandise and great values. You can choose to stop receiving any marketing emails and other marketing communications from us at any time. Simply go to My Account, sign in, click “Subscribe or unsubscribe from newsletters” and remove the check in the box next to the online email newsletter(s) you would no longer like to receive. Please allow up to 10 days for us to process your request. If you would prefer to stop receiving other forms of marketing communications from us, please follow the directions on the marketing materials from us or contact us directly.

The only e-mail messages you will receive from weddingsbymaria.com when you elect not to receive marketing e-mails will be to confirm any purchases you make on our site, let you know your order has been shipped, respond to your Customer Service inquiries and to answer any other questions you may have about our site. In addition, we may also need to send operational e-mails to inform you of any changes to our Site that might affect your personal information, or to announce product recalls.

More About Your Privacy

We realize that making purchases at weddingsbymaria.com, or any other web site, requires trust on your part. We value your trust very highly, and pledge to you, our customer, that we will work to protect the security and privacy of any personal information you provide to us and that your personal information will only be used as set forth in this Policy. This includes your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, and credit card or checking account information, in addition to any other personal information that can be linked to you, personally.

We believe that you have a right to know, before shopping at weddingsbymaria.com or at any other time, exactly what information we might collect from you, why we collect it and how we use it.

We do not and will not sell or rent your personal information to anyone. You have the right to control your personal information as you see fit.

If you have an account at weddingsbymaria.com and you want to change, modify or delete any of your personal information, you can do so anytime by simply going to “My Account”. Log in with your username and password, then click “View or change my account information”, “View or change entries in my address book”, or “Change my account password” and edit or delete whatever information you wish.

Weddings by Maria may provide links to certain third party web sites. This Privacy Policy applies only to activities conducted and personal information collected on this Site. Other web sites may have their own policies regarding privacy and security.

Weddings by Maria will obtain your consent before allowing the download of any software from weddingsbymaria.com, and Weddings by Maria will not automatically download any software to your computer system. Once you consent to the initial download of any software, you may receive automatic updates or patches pertaining to such software. You understand and agree that any material, including but not limited to downloaded software, required or automated updates, modifications, reinstallations, or software otherwise obtained through the use of weddingsbymaria.com is done at your own discretion and risk and that you will be solely responsible for any damages to your computer system or loss of data that may result from any such material.

E-mail Forgeries

Weddings by Maria is doing its best to protect you from a form of identity theft where e-mails of well-known companies or Web sites are faked or “spoofed.” E-mail forgers may use e-mail communications that look like weddingsbymaria.com emails to collect personal information from you. To help you detect if an email has been forged, look for the following warning signs:

· Weddings by Maria will never ask you to e-mail us personal information, such as your password, bank account or credit card information.

· We will never send you an e-mail that claims we have lost or are updating your records.
· We will never threaten to close your account or cancel an order if you do not provide us with personal information.

If you suspect you have been sent an e-mail that is from a forged e-mail address, please forward the e-mail to us at security@weddingsbymaria.com. Please don’t cut and paste the e-mail, and don’t change the subject line or forward it as an attachment because that makes it harder for us to investigate. If you are ever in doubt about the authenticity of an e-mail, don’t provide personal or sensitive information in an e-mail.

Changes to the Weddingsbymaria.com Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy was last updated on May 24, 2007. We reserve the right to change, modify or amend this policy at any time. Please check our Privacy Policy periodically for changes. Use of the weddingsbymaria.com web site after modification implies that you consent to this Privacy Policy as modified.