1.1 General : We use reasonable efforts to include only accurate and up-to-date information on our website, but we make no warranties or representations as to the content's completeness, timeliness, accuracy or qualification for a particular purpose. All of the Content placed on this Website is either owned by us or licensed by us from a third party ("Content"). The Content on this website is provided "AS IS", is for informational purposes only and should not be relied on for any purpose. We assume no liability or responsibility for any kind of errors or omissions in the Content on this website or for any damages of any kind related to the use or misuse of information provided on our website.

1.2 Registration : You do not need to register with The Savvy Bride or create an account with us in order to read or access some of the Content. To access some premium Content you will need to register with us and submit your contact information. Occasionally, The Savvy Bride may send you surveys asking for some additional personal information. This information you provide to us, along with your email address is treated as private in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

1.3 Reviews, Recommendations and Advice : All reviews, recommendations and advice are the opinion of the author about products or services of interest. Any opinion expressed in any article on our website is solely that of its author and is not necessarily in any way endorsed by us. Do not rely solely on our reviews, recommendations or advice without making your own investigation. All reviews, recommendations and advice are for your personal use only. You cannot use any of our Content (including our reviews, recommendations or advice) for any commercial or advertising purpose without our prior written consent.

1.4 "The Savvy News" Newsletter : We periodically will send out a newsletter about wedding industry related deals, promotions, events, or ideas.

1.5  Sound Advice : Using this feature you can ask a wedding professional about our site, about a specific wedding related item or about weddings in general. Your question and answer may be published and widely distributed on the Website.

1.6 Links : We link to websites of third parties ("Third Party Sites") solely for your convenience. We are not responsible for the content of such Third Party Sites. We do not necessarily endorse the products or services offered at those sites.

2.1  The Savvy Bride owns all rights in and to this website, including the website design and all content used on the website, except where identified as owned by third parties. www.savvybridevancouver.com is a trade mark of The Savvy Bride.

2.2  You are permitted to use the website only for personal, informational, non-commercial and lawful purposes. Therefore, you may not copy, reproduce, republish or transmit in any way materials from this website without our prior written consent.

2.3  Any communication, content or information you send to use will be treated as non-confidential. We may use any such submission for any purpose including, for example, for our "Sound Advice" or "Secret Confessions" feature or as a basis for website comments or as an idea for a deal. The Savvy Bride does not claim ownership of any submitted materials you provide to us including feedback and suggestions. However, by providing your submission you are granting us the right to use your Submission in any manner, way shape or form, and to publish your name in connection with your submission. We will not pay you anything for your submission.

3.1 By submitting any of your own information, stories or photographs etc. to our website, you grant us a royalty free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully sub-licensable right and license to use, display, reproduce and modify in any manner whatsoever your submission, in whole or in part, anywhere we see fit. You also waive any moral rights you may have in our submission.

3.2  By making you submission to us, you warrant that the information and material you submit are true and accurate, relate only to lawful activity, do not infringe or violate any third party's rights, including copyrights or trademark rights, nor will they be defamatory, false, misleading or in any manner harmful to any person or otherwise unlawful if posted on our website.

3.3 We reserve the right to edit, modify, remove from the website or not post any material we find inappropriate for any reason whatsoever, without notice to any person.

3.4 Although we take great care in posting information on our website, technical, typographic and/or photographic errors may occur in our posting of your submission. Although we request that you notify us of any such errors, we are not responsible or liable under any circumstances for any loss or damage caused by such errors.

3.5  By submitting information to us, you are agreeing that you and/or your organization will indemnify and hold harmless The Savvy Bride and its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, consultants and agents from any claim or demand, including reasonably attorney's fees, made by any person due to or arising directly or indirectly in any manner from your submission to our website.

3.6  By submitting information to us, you agree to our Privacy Policy and the manner in which your information will be held confidential. You acknowledge that we can use the information any manner we see fit in accordance with our Privacy Policy, including publishing the information on our website, and elsewhere, without compensation to you. We will not be responsible for any damages to you or any third party suffered as the result of any unauthorized transmission of confidential information that you may make to or through us or for any errors or any changes made to such transmitted information.

4.1 THE MATERIALS ON THIS WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE WEBSITE WILL OPERATE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THIS WEBSITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. WE DO NO WARRANT OR MAKE ANY RESPRESENATIONS REGARDING THE USE OR THE RESULT OF THE USE OF THE MATERIALS ON THIS WEBSITE IN TERMS OF ACCURACY OR RELIABILITY FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. YOU ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

4.2  UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO NEGLIGENCE, SHALL WE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, DIRECT OR INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL, THAT RESULT FROM THE USE OF, MISUSE OF, OR THE INABILITY TO USE OUR WEBSITE OR ANY MATERIALS CONTAINED THEREON, EVEN IF WE OR OUR REPRESENTATIVES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

5.2  Canceling Your Account : If you are registered with us, you can cancel it at any time by emailing us. We can cancel or suspend your account for any reason at any time in our sole discretion.

5.3  Governing Law : This Agreement is governed by the laws of the Province of British Columbia, Canada. All disputes arising out of or in connection with this Agreement shall be referred to and finally resolved by arbitration or mediation under the rules of the British Columbia International Arbitration Centre. In the event that any of these terms are found to be unenforceable or invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalid or unenforceable provision shall be deemed severable and shall not effect the validity and enforceability of any other term or condition herein.

5.4  Assignment : We may assign this Agreement in connection with a merger, amalgamation or corporate re-organization, or in connection with the sale of all or substantially all our assets.

If you have any questions regarding these Conditions of Use, please email us at info@savvybridevancouver.com .

The Savvy Bride supports a general policy of openness about personal data collection and use. We have established this privacy policy to comply with regulation and with the highest possible standards for safeguarding information security and privacy as part of our commitment to protecting your personal information from misuse. This privacy policy governs the use of any information you provide to us through the www.savvybridevancouver.com website. The privacy policy also describes how we will use such information and the limited circumstances in which such information may be disclosed.

This website is not directed at children under the age of 16. If you are under 16, please do not provide any personal information on the Websites.

If you object to your personal information being transferred or used as described in this Privacy Policy, please do not use the website or view any of the content on the website.

Please note that this privacy policy does not apply to any information you supply to third party sites which may be linked from the website.

You do not have to provide personal information to use the website, however particular services provided through the website may require that you supply personal information. We collect such personal information only when you provide it to us - for example, in answering surveys; entering contests and sweepstakes; registering to receive electronic newsletters; purchasing items from our stores; and taking part in other promotional opportunities. You may be asked to provide your contact information (such as your name, postal address, telephone numbers and/or email address), financial information (such as credit card numbers) and demographic information (such as your postal code, age, wedding budget or income level) in connection with your use of such services.

Contact information is used to respond to your inquiries; to notify you if you have won a contest or a quiz and to send products and services ordered from our website. You also may receive periodic mailings from us or our advertisers with information on new products and services, updates to our website, or upcoming events.

We may share our user mailing list with reputable and carefully screened firms/vendors for marketing or promotional purposes. We may also forward information to you regarding third party products or services, without disclosing your personal information to such third parties. You may opt out of having your contact information as part of our mailing list at any time (see the Opt-Out Section below). You also have the option of reporting excessive spamming by third party companies (see Report Misuse Section below).

For further clarity we collect the following information from you

A. Savvy News or Sound Advice: To deliver The Savvy News e-newsletter or reply to any Sound Advice questions, we will require your name, address, phone number, email address and wedding date. We require this information to better customize the information you receive and to verify your identity.

B. Surveys: From time to time we will send out surveys asking for information, including your age, location, income, wedding budget and education. This data is used to better understand our visitors and tailor the site to your needs.

C. Prizes: If you are chosen as a winner for a prize, we will require your name and mailing address to ship the prize to you.

D. Ask the Professional: When submitting a question to us you are giving us your approval to edit, post, and distribute the question on the Sound Advice, and possibly the home page, of our website. We may also post your first name and general location.

3. Security and Transaction Information

We have security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. Any time we ask for a credit card number we use a trusted third party credit card processing website such as paypal.com or 2checkout.com to process. Please also review their privacy policy before completing your purchase. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make reasonable efforts to ensure its security on our systems.

4. Website Traffic Information

Due to the technical nature of web-browsing, when you visit our website, we obtain the following information:

A. The web address of the website that you came from or are going to:

B. Which pages of our website you visit, the type of browser you use; and

C. The times you access our website

We use IP addresses to calculate Website usage levels. Whenever you are on the Internet, a number (an IP addresses) is automatically assigned to your computer. This number is identified and logged automatically whenever you visit our Website. Collecting IP addressees is standard practice on the Internet, and is done automatically by many websites. We use this information only to try to understand your preferences better and to manage the load on our servers, so as to improve our service, analyze trends, administer the site, improve site performance, and gather demographic information for aggregate use. Demographic information, as well as usage data collected from logging IP addresses, is shared with advertiser and third parties only on an aggregated basis (see the Aggregated Information Section below).

5. Service Providers

We work with third parties who provide services including but not limited to website hosting, website maintenance, order processing and fulfillment, credit card clearance, e-commerce affiliation and data analysis. Personal information, including financial information, is shared with such third parties for the purpose of providing such services.

6. Aggregated Information

We collect information through our Website relating to traffic levels on our Website; for example, the total number of users visiting particular pages. We also collect and analyze aggregate demographic information, the results of surveys as well as information relating to the search functionality on the Website.

Aggregated information is helpful to us for improving the services we offer and for marketing purposes. We may share aggregated information, which does not personally identify you, with our advertisers, business partners, or other companies.

7. Links to Third Party Sites

Our Website may contain links to third-party Websites. The linked sites are not under the control of The Savvy Bride, and we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the contents of any linked site, or any link contained in a linked site. We are providing these links only as a convenience, and the inclusion of a link on our Website does not necessarily imply endorsement of the linked site by The Savvy Bride.

8. Disclosure to Third Parties

We will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information to third parties except in the limited circumstances described below, or with your express permission. These third parties are limited by law or by contract from using the information for secondary purposes beyond the purposes for which the information is disclosed. We disclose information appropriate to the circumstances as determined in our sole unfettered discretion.

9. Updating your information

You can review the personal information provided to us and make changes to some information by emailing us at info@savvybridevancouver.com.

You may inform us if you wish to remove your personal information from our database and we will endeavor to comply with your request as soon as reasonably possible. Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes and there may also be residual information that will remain within our databases and other records. We reserve the right, from time-to-time, to re-contact former users of our Website.

We give you the following options for removing your personal information from our database in order to stop receiving future communications from our Website:

Email: info@savvybridevancouver.com
Telephone: 604-418-6795
Facsimile: 604-946-0992

11. Report Misuse

We welcome you to inform us of any misuse, such as excessive spamming or distribution of questionable or pornographic material that you have received from our Advertisers or that which claims to be from our Website. Please let us know immediately of any such misuse by emailing us at info@savvybridevancouver.com.

12. Changes to the Privacy Policy

Any of the policies or procedures above may be changed at any time without prior notice. If we decide to change this privacy policy, we will post the amended policy prominently on our website so you may review such changes. You can determine if this Privacy Policy has been revised by referring to the "Last Updated" date at the bottom of this page. Any changes will be effective immediately. Use of our Website constitutes your acceptance of the terms of this Privacy Policy then in effect. If you do not agree to such changes then please contact us and we will discard your information and ask that you please do not use the website or view any of the content on the website thereon.

By accepting the Privacy Policy and User Agreement you expressly consent to your use and disclosure of your personal information in the manner described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms of the Advertiser Agreement. This Privacy Policy will take effect September 27, 2007. This Privacy Policy was last updated on September 27, 2007.