This Cookie Policy explains how Wedzway Ltd ("Wedzway", "we", "our", or "us") uses cookies and similar technologies when you access or use our website, including www.wedzway.com, and any associated services. It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we use personal data more broadly.
1. What Are Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit a website. These files allow the website to recognise your device and store certain information about your preferences or past actions. Cookies play an important role in enabling websites to function efficiently, improving user experience, and providing analytical insights into how users interact with digital services.
2. How Wedzway Uses Cookies
Wedzway uses cookies to ensure that the platform operates effectively and securely, while also enhancing your overall experience. Cookies allow us to support essential functionality such as user authentication, booking processes, and saving user preferences. In addition, cookies enable us to understand how users navigate through the platform, which helps us optimise performance, improve features, and refine our content and marketing strategies.
We also use cookies to personalise your experience, for example by showing location-relevant content, remembering your preferences, and enabling continuity across sessions. Certain cookies are necessary for maintaining secure sessions and ensuring that your interactions with the platform are protected.
3. Categories of Cookies Used
Wedzway classifies cookies in accordance with widely accepted industry standards, including guidance from the ICC UK Cookie Guide.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly necessary cookies are essential for the operation of the website and cannot be disabled through our systems. These cookies enable core features such as secure login, session management, enquiry submissions, booking functionality, and payment processing. Without these cookies, the platform would not be able to provide key services, including access to user accounts and concierge support.
Performance & Analytics Cookies
Performance and analytics cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use the website. This includes details such as which pages are visited most frequently, how users navigate through the platform, and whether they encounter any errors. This information is used in an aggregated and anonymised form to help us improve the functionality, usability, and performance of our services. These cookies also help us measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns and understand traffic sources.
Functionality Cookies
Functionality cookies allow the platform to remember choices that you make, such as your preferred country, language, currency, and other personalised settings. They may also store information related to your activity on the platform, such as saved venues, wedding planning progress, or previously viewed content. These cookies enhance user experience by providing a more tailored and seamless interaction with the platform, although they are not strictly required for basic functionality.
4. Third-Party Cookies
In certain cases, Wedzway works with trusted third-party service providers who may place cookies on your device when you use our platform. These may include analytics providers, advertising partners, payment processors, and social media platforms. Such third parties may use cookies to collect information about your interactions with our website and other websites, in accordance with their own privacy policies.
Wedzway does not control the use of these third-party cookies and recommends that users review the relevant third-party privacy policies for further information.
5. Managing and Disabling Cookies
You have the ability to control and manage cookies through your browser settings. Most web browsers allow you to block or delete cookies, as well as configure preferences for specific websites. You may choose to refuse cookies entirely or to receive a notification when a cookie is being set.
However, please note that disabling or restricting cookies may affect the functionality of the Wedzway platform. Certain features, including user authentication, booking processes, and personalised settings, may not operate correctly if cookies are disabled.
Instructions for managing cookies can typically be found within your browser's help section. For example, in Safari, you can access cookie settings via the Privacy section in Preferences, while on mobile devices such as iPhone or iPad, these settings can be found under Safari in the device settings menu.
6. Cookie Consent
When you first access the Wedzway platform, you may be presented with a cookie consent banner that allows you to accept all cookies, reject non-essential cookies, or customise your preferences. Your consent choices will be stored and can be updated at any time through the relevant settings on our website.
7. Updates to This Policy
Wedzway may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in legal requirements, technology, or our business operations. Any updates will be published on this page, and the "Last Updated" date will be revised accordingly. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we use cookies.
8. Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies, you may contact us at:
Wedzway Ltd
71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden
London, United Kingdom, WC2H 9JQ
Email: privacy@wedzway.com