Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.alwaysyoursoccasions.com.
We are event planners who provide opportunities to gather and get away to relax, be creative, and be refreshed. As wedding planners, we are mentors in helping brides and grooms plan their own wedding. In addition, we are Sandals Travel Advisors and help people book weddings, honeymoons, and vacations and service their bookings.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Cookies
A standard technology called “cookies” are used to collect data as to how our site is used. Cookies are small text documents which frequently includes an anonymous and unique identifier. By visiting a website, the site’s computer asks your computer for permission to keep the file in your hard drive in an area especially designed for cookies. Each website is able to send its own cookie to your browser if your preferences allow it. In order to protect your privacy, your browser will only allow a website to access the cookies it has previously sent to you, not cookies sent to you by other sites.
Date and time of visit, time spent at our site, pages seen, and website visited prior to and after ours, and your IP address may be included in the information gathered. When you access the website, we will learn information about you during your visit. The website has various places for you to provide information. We collect information that you give by communication with us via surveys, contact forms, searches, comments, feedback, and via providing information when you order a service or product.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
We reserve the right to use cookies and technological equivalents such as social media pixels. These allow social media sites to track visitors to other websites in order to tailor advertisements and like messages you see while visiting a particular social media website.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
We have no control over these third party tracking technologies nor over how they may be used. If you have any questions about a third party, you should directly contact them.
Email Information and Policies
If you choose to communicate with us via email, we may retain your email address, your email message content, and our responses. We are committed to keeping your e-mail address confidential, and provide the same protections for electronic communications that we use in maintaining information received in the mail, online, and via telephone. The applies as well when you register for our website, use your email address to sign up using any of our forms, or make a purchase on this site.
We do not sell, lease, or rent our subscription or course lists to third parties. We will not disclose your email address to any third parties except as allowed as per the section on who we share your data with.
We maintain the information you send via email in accordance with applicable federal law.
We operate in compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act. Our emails provide the user the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications using the unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of any email received from us. Users who no longer desire to receive promotional materials, newsletters, and the like may opt-out of receiving such communications using the unsubscribe link in the email.
How and Why we Collect Data
We collect your information so we can record and support your choosing to participate in your selected activities. If you register to download resources, sign up for an event or class, and/or purchase a service or product from us, we collect your data. This data is used to track your preferences and keep you informed regarding the services and products you select to receive as well as other related services or products. In general, as a visitor to our website, providing your personal information is not needed to engage in most activities. Should you seek to register for services, download resources, or reserve a spot in an event or course, you are required to provide information.
Analytics
Automatic data Collection
As you browse our website, we may use automatic data collection technologies including Google Analytics. These will collect certain information regarding your browsing actions, patterns, and equipment. Information regarding your location, your traffic pattern as you navigate the website, communications between your computer and our website are generally included. In addition, data about your Internet connection, the type of computer you use, your IP address and your operating system and browser type are collected.
Automatic data collected is used for statistical data and does not include personal information. This data is used to improve our services and our website. To the extent that you provide personal information voluntarily, our processing systems will associate the data automatically collected with your personal information.
What do we do with your data?
Your personal data is used to present our website and its contents to you. We provide you with information, with offers for services and products, and with information regarding your selected services or products. We also use your information to carry out any contract between you and Always Yours Occasions, LLC, to provide customer service, administer our business activities, and to make other services and items available to our current and prospective customers.
Occasionally, we may use data you provide to display advertisements to you that are in accordance with your interests, activities, and personal characteristics.
We may use your data to make offers to you to purchase products and/or services from third parties in exchange for a commission to be paid to us by the third party. If you opt to take part in these promotions, your information will be provided to the third parties.
Who we share your data with
We generally do not sell, lease, rent or otherwise give any information we collect whether through your voluntary action or automatically. We collect your information in order to record and share and support your participation in the events or activities you choose. We share info on a need-to know basis with parties connected to your events, activities, in providing customer service, in carrying out any contract between you and Always Yours Occasions, and to display advertisements that are tailored to your preferences.
We may disclose your personal information to service providers, those teaching or photographing our in person retreats and online and audio courses, or to book or service a Sandals or Beaches Resort booking for the purpose of providing services to you.
We may disclose your personal information to a third party if necessary to enforce our service terms or any other agreement between you and us. Such third parties may include attorneys and collection agencies.
Should we merge, restructure, reorganize, dissolve, or sell or in any other way have a new partner, shareholder, owner, or successor, we may provide them with your information. We may provide your information when we, in good faith, believe that it is needed for the protection of our legal rights, when the law requires it, or when compelled by a government entity to do so.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
How we protect your data
We use commercially reasonable methods for the security of the data you provide to us and the information automatically collected. This includes standard security protocols as well as working only with reputable third party vendors. Please note: Email is not seen as a secure medium of correspondence. For this reason, we request that you refrain from sending private information via email to us. It is at your own risk should you do so. SSL, known as Secure Sockets Layer, may be used to transmit some of the information you enter on our website. Credit card information and other sensitive data should never be transmitted via email.
We may use software programs for the purposes of assessing the number of visitors to particular sections of our site, to create summary statistics, to ascertain what information is of least or most interest, to identify problem areas and system performance, and to determine technical design specifications.
We are particularly protective over privacy. We also do not lend out information EXCEPT as pertaining to such as needed for bookings and payments and the like.
To ensure this service remains available to all users and for site security purposes, we may use software programs to monitor network traffic in order to identify unauthorized attempts to upload, download, or change information, or otherwise cause damage.
What rights you have over your data
We will keep any information you choose to give us until we cease using our current data providers, we decide that the value in keeping the data is outweighed by the cost of keeping it, or until you ask us to delete your information. If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.To the extent to which you provided consent to our processing your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based upon consent that occurred prior to your withdrawing your consent.
We require only the information that is reasonable to require in order to enter into an agreement with you. We do not require you to give consent for any unnecessary processing as a condition of entering into an agreement with us.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Our contact information
Email: email@alwaysyoursoccasions.com. Always Yours Occasions P.O. Box 32102, Knoxville, TN 32930
Additional information
Policy Changes
It is our policy to post any changes made to our privacy policy on this page. Should there be a material change in how we treat our users’ personal data, we will note that on this page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our website and checking our privacy policy to note any changes.
What third parties we receive data from
Blue Host, Mail Chimp, WordPress, Stripe , Event Brite, Woo Commerce, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Google, Linked-In, co-branded websites such as Sandals and Beaches Resorts
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
We use Mailchimp, CRM, WordPress, Stripe, Blue Host, Event Brite, Woo Commerce, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Google, Linked-In and other social media platforms & etc to stay in touch, administrate events, collect data to book, make payments, and use for event, retreat, online and audio course purposes, and book and service your Sandals or Beaches reservations.