What we keep

The guest book. The name and message you type. Nothing else — there is no account and no email field.

Photographs. The image itself, the name you put with it, and its size. The picture is stored on Cloudflare's storage in our account.

Applause and “who is watching”. A number, and the country your connection appears to be in. The country comes from Cloudflare's network — we never ask you and there is no field for it. It is stored as a country and nothing narrower: “Mexico”, never a city, an address or a person.

The couple may get a notification on their phone. If they have turned it on, signing the guest book or adding a photograph can send them an alert with your name and what you wrote on it, or the photograph itself. It goes to their phone only, through their browser. It is the same thing they would see on the page — the notification just means they see it sooner. Nothing about it is sent to anybody else and no new information is collected to make it work.

Two limits worth stating, because they are choices and not accidents: nothing is sent during the ceremony itself, and nothing at all once the page becomes a keepsake.

No analytics, no tracking pixels, no advertising, and nothing is shared with anyone for marketing. There is no third-party script on the page beyond the anti-spam check described below.

No cookies are set on a wedding page.

Your IP address is never stored by us. When you set up a page, write in the guest book or send a photograph it is passed to Cloudflare Turnstile — the “are you a robot” check — so it can tell a person from a script. We do not write it down, and it is not in our database anywhere. Repeated signup attempts are also limited briefly at Cloudflare's edge; that counter expires and is not an account record.

Nothing here is used to train anything, sold, or used to build a profile of you. There is nothing to build one from.

Your names, the date and place of the ceremony, the look of the page, and one email address — the one that signs you in. There is no password: we email a link that works once and lasts fifteen minutes. A sign-in lasts a month before it asks again.

Your email is used to sign you in and to reach you about your own page. It is not a mailing list.

If you pay for your page, we send your email address and a reference for your wedding to Stripe to arrange checkout. Stripe collects your payment details and billing address. We do not store your card details. We keep the amount, currency, billing country, payment references and payment or refund status so we can record your purchase and handle billing questions and tax obligations. Stripe explains its handling of payment information in its privacy notice.

If your wedding is streamed, it is streamed and recorded through Cloudflare Stream. About 7 days after the day — once the people who wanted to watch have watched — the recording is moved into our own storage and deleted from Stream. It is the same film at the same address; it simply costs a tenth as much to keep, which is what lets us keep it at all.

The couple can replace it or take it down at any time from their own settings.

A wedding page is meant to be a keepsake, so the messages, photographs and film stay for as long as we are here to keep them. We would rather say that plainly than promise “for ever”, which is not a promise anybody can make: if we ever stop, we will send the couple everything first — the film, the photographs and every message — as files that are theirs to keep.

Sign-in links last fifteen minutes and work once. Sessions last a month. Both are deleted when they are used or when they expire.

If you wrote something, or you are in a photograph, and you would rather not be — ask, and it goes. Two ways:

• Tell the couple. They can delete any message or photograph from their own settings, immediately and permanently — the image is removed from our storage, not just hidden from the page.
• One honest limit. A week after the wedding the couple can download the whole page to keep — the photographs and the guest book with it. We can delete anything from our storage, but we cannot reach a copy already on somebody's own computer, any more than we could reach a photograph they had printed. Ask sooner rather than later, and ask the couple as well as us.
• Or email privacy@aregettingmarried.uk and we will do it. Say which wedding and what you would like removed.

You can also ask what we hold about you, ask for it in a copy, or complain to the Information Commissioner's Office if you think we have got this wrong.

The wedding pages run on Cloudflare — the database, the photograph storage and the video. Cloudflare's network is worldwide, so a page loads from wherever you are, and content may be stored or served outside the UK. Payments are handled by Stripe as described above.

These pages are run by Berisi Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales, company number 17415118, whose registered office is at 1 Oxford Road, Banbury, England, OX16 9AH. We are registered with the Information Commissioner's Office. Questions about any of this: privacy@aregettingmarried.uk.