wedin.ai

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 15 May 2025  ·  Effective date: 15 May 2025

This Privacy Policy explains how Wedin PTY (Ltd) ("Wedin", "we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, stores, and protects your personal information when you use wedin.ai. We are committed to protecting your privacy in accordance with the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA).

1. Who We Are (Responsible Party)

Under POPIA, the Responsible Party for your personal information is:

Wedin PTY (Ltd)
Registered in the Republic of South Africa
Email: hello@wedin.ai
Telephone: +27 72 510 4859

2. What Information We Collect

We collect the following categories of personal information:

Category Examples When collected
Contact information Email address, name When you enter your details to receive your Music Portrait or Music Brief
Wedding details Date, guest count, venue type, budget range During the discovery session
Music preferences Genre preferences, specific song requests, energy preferences During the discovery session
Payment information Transaction reference, payment status When you pay for full access. Card details are handled by PayFast — we never see or store them.
Usage data Pages visited, session duration, browser type Automatically, via standard web analytics

We do not collect your South African ID number, passport number, bank account details, or any special personal information (as defined under POPIA) unless you voluntarily provide it in a free-text field.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use your personal information for the following purposes:

We will never use your information for any purpose not listed here without your explicit consent.

4. Legal Basis for Processing

Under POPIA, we process your personal information on the following bases:

5. How We Store Your Data

Your personal information is stored in a secure database provided by Supabase, hosted on infrastructure within or accessible from South Africa. We apply row-level security to all tables to ensure that data is only accessible by authorised system processes.

We retain your session data (wedding preferences and planning outputs) for up to 24 months. After this period, data is anonymised or deleted. If you wish to have your data deleted sooner, see Section 8.

6. Third Parties We Work With

We share personal information only with the following trusted service providers, and only to the extent necessary to deliver the service:

Service Provider Purpose Data shared
PayFast (DPO PayGate) Payment processing Transaction reference and amount. PayFast handles all card data directly — we never receive it.
Anthropic (Claude AI) Generating planning outputs Your anonymised wedding preferences. We do not send your name or email to Anthropic.
Resend Transactional email delivery Your email address and the content of planning outputs
Netlify Website hosting and serverless functions Standard web request data (IP address, browser type)
Supabase Database storage All session and contact data described above

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to any third party for commercial purposes.

7. Cookies

wedin.ai uses cookies to remember your session progress and to understand how the site is used. We use a cookie consent banner to obtain your consent before placing non-essential cookies. You can withdraw consent at any time by clearing your browser cookies and declining when prompted on your next visit.

Essential cookies (required for the site to function, such as session cookies) are placed without consent as they are strictly necessary.

8. Your Rights Under POPIA

As a data subject under POPIA, you have the following rights:

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at hello@wedin.ai. We will respond within 30 days.

The Information Regulator can be contacted at: www.justice.gov.za/inforeg

9. Security

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your personal information against unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. These include HTTPS encryption, server-side API key management, and database row-level security. No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure — if you become aware of any security concern, please contact us immediately at hello@wedin.ai.

10. Children

wedin.ai is intended for adults planning their wedding. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 18. If you believe a minor has submitted personal information through wedin.ai, please contact us and we will delete it promptly.

11. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the service or in applicable law. When we make material changes, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

12. Contact Us

For any privacy-related questions, access requests, or concerns:

We aim to respond within 2 business days.