Privacy

Wedding Helper is operated by Adverb Limited, a company in New Zealand. We are responsible for the information described here, under New Zealand’s Privacy Act 2020 and, for people in the United Kingdom and the European Union, the UK and EU GDPR.

Only what planning a wedding needs, and nothing is asked twice. You can use most of Wedding Helper on one device without an account; an account is what lets your wedding follow you to other devices and lets your partner and helpers join it.

• Your account: your email address, and how you sign in — a code we email you, or Apple or Google if you choose them.
• Your wedding: the names you give for the two of you, your date and place if you know them, your budget and costs, the suppliers you are talking to or have booked, your plan, notes, and a photo of the two of you if you add one.
• Your guests: the names you add — typed, imported from a spreadsheet, or chosen from your phone’s contacts — with the households, sides, replies and dietary needs you record for them.
• People planning with you: the email address each person joins with, their role, and the name you gave their invite, such as “Mum”.
• Invites and reply links: we keep a fingerprint of each link rather than the link itself, so a link can be checked but not rebuilt from what we store.

We use this to run the wedding for you: to show it on every device you sign in on, to let the people you invite see it, and to work out what to suggest next. We do not use it for anything else.

If you join the waiting list on our home page, we keep the first name and email address you give, to tell you when Wedding Helper opens on your phone. That is all it is used for. Ask and we will take you off it, and delete the address.

Your guest list holds information about people who have not signed up themselves. You add it, and it stays inside your wedding: the people planning with you can see it, and nobody else can.

If you send a guest their reply link, they can answer without an account. The link opens their own invitation and nothing else of your wedding. What they send — whether they are coming, and what the caterer needs to know — goes into your list. A guest who wants their details removed can ask you, or ask us.

When you choose guests from your phone’s contacts, the phone’s own picker hands us only the names you select. We never see the rest of your address book, and we do not read phone numbers, email addresses or photos from it.

If you sign in with Apple or Google, they tell us your email address, and that it is you. Apple may give us a private relay address instead of your real one if you choose that.

When you sign in with Apple, we also keep a token Apple issues, for one purpose: so that if you delete your account, we can tell Apple to end Wedding Helper’s access. We do that within minutes of your request, and then delete the token.

So your wedding opens without a signal — on the day itself, most of all — a copy of it is kept on your phone or in your browser. Also kept there: whether you chose light or dark, and your sign-in, so you are not asked every time. Signing out takes all of it off that device. Anything you changed that has not reached us yet is sent first, and if it cannot be — because you are offline — you are asked before anything is lost.

The website keeps you signed in with a cookie. It is needed for the site to work and is used for nothing else. Our fonts are served from our own domain, so reading a page does not tell anyone else you were here.

We do not measure how you use Wedding Helper: no analytics, no page-view tracking, no session recording and no advertising pixels. If that changes, we will ask everyone first, and this page will name what we use before any of it runs.

• We never sell your information, or your guests’, to anyone.
• We never give suppliers your planning. When you contact a supplier, you do it yourself, and they see only what you send them.
• We never show advertising inside your planning, and never let a business pay to be recommended to you.
• We never send your wedding to an AI model. Answers to your questions are worked out from your wedding itself.

A few companies run parts of Wedding Helper for us. They handle your information only to do that job, under contracts that require them to protect it.

• Supabase — our database and sign-in. Your wedding is stored in its Sydney, Australia region.
• Vercel — hosts the website and our server.
• Resend — sends your sign-in codes, from hello@weddinghelper.app.
• Apple and Google — only if you choose to sign in with them.

Some of these companies store or process information outside New Zealand. When they do, they are held to protections comparable to New Zealand’s.

You can set up a website for your guests, but these websites are not public yet: only you can see yours, as a preview. When they open, a site will show what you put on it and nothing else from your planning. Anyone with its address will be able to open it, and the address is made from your names, so treat what you put there as public. Search engines will be asked not to list it unless you choose otherwise.

In the app or on the website, go to Settings and choose Delete my account. You will be told exactly what happens before anything does.

• A wedding you share with a partner stays with them, with everything in it.
• A wedding you started on your own is closed, and erased with your account.
• Weddings you help with carry on without you.
• Your account and your details are erased after thirty days. Until then, signing in again lets you keep it.

We keep a record that an account was erased, with nothing about what it held. If you cannot sign in, write to us and we will delete it for you.

You can ask what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, ask for a copy of it, or ask us to delete it. Guests can ask the same about their details. We answer within twenty working days, and it costs nothing. If you are not satisfied with our answer, you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner in New Zealand, or to the data protection authority where you live.

Wedding Helper is for adults planning a wedding. It is not meant for anyone under sixteen, and we do not knowingly keep information about children other than as guests a couple adds to their list.

If we change what we do with your information, this page changes first, with the date at the top.

To ask about anything here, write to legal@weddinghelper.app. Adverb Limited, New Zealand.