Cookie Policy

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile) when you visit a website. They help websites remember information about your visit, such as your preferred language and other settings, which can make your next visit easier and the site more useful to you.

2. How We Use Cookies

WeddingWild uses cookies and similar technologies to:

• Ensure our website functions properly
• Remember your preferences and settings
• Analyse how you use our website to improve our services
• Deliver relevant advertisements
• Measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns

3. Types of Cookies We Use

We use three categories of cookies on our website. These categories match the choices available to you in our cookie consent banner.

Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They enable basic functions like page navigation, access to secure areas, and remembering your cookie consent preferences. The website cannot function properly without these cookies, and they cannot be disabled.

Analytics Cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. This data helps us improve the website experience for all users.

Advertising Cookies

These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests. They may also be used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. They are set by us or by third-party advertising partners such as Google AdSense and Grow.me.

Third-party advertising partners such as Grow.me may also set additional cookies when advertising scripts are loaded with your consent. These cookies are governed by the respective third party's privacy policies.

4. Third-Party Cookies

We use third-party services that may set cookies on our website. For detailed information about our advertising partners and data sharing practices, please see Section 5 (Advertising and Affiliates) and Section 6 (Information Sharing and Disclosure) of our Privacy Policy. Our third-party cookie providers include:

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with our website. This helps us improve our content and user experience. Google Analytics uses the _ga and _gid cookies listed above.

Google AdSense

We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on our website. Google may use cookies to serve ads based on your visits to this and other websites. You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings.

Grow.me

We use Grow.me to enhance our advertising and content recommendation capabilities. Grow.me may set cookies when you consent to advertising cookies on our website. The Grow.me script is only loaded after you have granted advertising consent.

Social Media Platforms

We use social media plugins (Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest) that may set cookies to track your interactions with our content.

5. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

Cookie Consent Tool

You can change your cookie preferences at any time using the button below. This will re-open the cookie consent preferences panel where you can enable or disable each cookie category.

Browser Settings

Most web browsers also allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can:

• View what cookies are stored on your device
• Delete cookies individually or all at once
• Block cookies from specific sites
• Block all cookies
• Set your browser to notify you when cookies are being set

Browser-Specific Instructions

Opt-Out Tools

You can also opt out of certain cookies using these tools:

• Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on
• Google Ads Settings
• Digital Advertising Alliance Opt-out
• Network Advertising Initiative Opt-out

For additional opt-out options including mobile devices and the DAA AppChoices app, please see Section 17 (Consent Management and Opt-Out Options) of our Privacy Policy.

6. Impact of Disabling Cookies

Please note that disabling cookies may affect your experience on our website:

• Some features may not work properly
• You may need to re-enter information more frequently
• Personalised content and recommendations may not be available
• We may not be able to remember your preferences
• You will still see advertisements, but they will not be personalised to you

7. Cookie Consent

When you first visit our website, you'll see a cookie consent banner asking for your consent to use non-essential cookies. You can:

• Accept all cookies
• Reject all non-essential cookies
• Customise your preferences by category (analytics and advertising)

Your consent choice is stored in the cc_cookie cookie for 1 year. You can change your preferences at any time using the button in Section 5 above, or by clearing your browser cookies and revisiting the site.

Non-essential cookies (analytics and advertising) are not set until you provide consent. If you reject non-essential cookies, only strictly necessary cookies will be used.

8. Updates to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any significant changes by posting the updated policy on our website and updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this page.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us:

10. Related Policies

For more information about how we handle your personal data, including details on advertising partners, your rights, and opt-out mechanisms, please see our:

• Privacy Policy — covers data collection, legal basis, advertising partners, your rights under GDPR and CCPA/CPRA, and Do Not Track signals
• Terms of Service — covers affiliate link disclosures and general usage terms