Privacy Policy

To run your website, registry, and guest list - nothing beyond that. To send you sign-in links, gift alerts, and account notices. To answer you when you write in. To keep the service secure and working. Your data is shown to you, and to your guests only where you chose to publish it on your site

We never sell your data or your guests’ data, and we never share it for anyone else’s advertising. We do not run ads inside your registry, we do not share guest information with retailers or marketers, and we do not use your data to train AI models. Your guest list is yours, full stop

Cash gifts are processed by Stripe and paid into your own Stripe account - the money never comes to us and is never held by us. Card and bank details go straight to Stripe and never reach us: there is nothing for us to see or store, and no payment details are ever kept on our servers. Opening that account means giving Stripe your own details directly - your name, your bank account, and whatever identity documents Stripe asks for to verify you. That goes to Stripe, not through us, and Stripe handles it under its own privacy policy. We see only what Stripe tells us about your account: whether it is connected and ready to accept gifts. We take no cut, and we send you a separate payment covering Stripe’s processing fee so the whole gift reaches you. What we keep is the record of the gift - who gave, how much, what it was toward, and anything they wrote - so you can thank them. If you buy a custom domain, Stripe handles that card in the same way

We use one essential cookie, to keep you signed in. No advertising cookies, no third-party trackers, no social pixels, and no cross-site analytics. Outbound links to stores may carry an affiliate code that tells the retailer the click came from AHNOU - it does not tell them who you are. The full detail is on our Cookie Preferences page

Your account data stays while your account is open. Sign-in links expire within the hour and sessions expire on their own. When you ask us to close your account we delete your site, registry, guest list, and gift ledger within 30 days, keeping only what we must for tax or legal records - a domain purchase, for instance, leaves a receipt we are required to hold. Backups roll off within 90 days

Everything travels over an encrypted connection. We never store your password. What is kept is a one-way scrambling of it, with a different random ingredient for every account - so two people who chose the same word do not look alike, and nobody holding a copy of our database can read either one back. Sign-in codes are kept the same way. Signing in needs the password and a code sent to your email, both every time, so neither one alone opens your account. Access to production data is limited to the people who need it to run the service. No system is perfectly secure, and if a breach ever affected your data we would tell you promptly and plainly

You can export your data - website content, registry, guest list, and gift ledger - at any time. You can see and correct anything in your account from your dashboard. You can ask for a copy, ask us to correct something, or ask us to delete it, and you can object to how we use it. If you want your account closed and your data deleted, contact us and a real person will take care of it and confirm when it is done. We answer within 30 days and we will not charge you or treat you differently for asking

You have the right to know what we collect, to get a copy, to correct it, to delete it, and to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information. AHNOU does not sell or share personal information, so there is nothing to opt out of - and no financial incentive programs to disclose. To use any of these rights, email us and say what you want; we may need to confirm you are you before we act. An authorised agent can ask on your behalf

AHNOU is operated from the United States, and your data is stored and processed there. Privacy law where you live may differ. If you are in the UK or the EEA, we handle your data to provide the service you asked for and because we have a legitimate interest in running it safely, and you keep your rights of access, correction, erasure, restriction, portability, and objection, along with the right to complain to your local data protection authority

AHNOU is for adults planning an event. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13. Children do appear on guest lists - as names and seat counts entered by the couple - and we treat those entries as the couple’s data and never use them for anything else. If you believe a child’s information reached us in any other way, write to us and we will delete it

For your own account, AHNOU decides how data is handled. For your guest list, you do - we hold and process it on your instructions. That means it is on you to have your guests’ agreement to store their details and to publish anything of theirs on your site. If a guest asks you for a copy of their data or asks you to delete it, we will help you do it

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we will email you before the change takes effect, and the date at the top of this page will change. Smaller wording fixes will just appear here

Privacy questions and data requests go to contact@ahnou.com, and a real person answers