Privacy policy

From hosts

Your email address and name, to sign you in. If you sign in with Google, Google tells us your email, name and profile picture.

What you put in your invites: names, dates, places, words and photos. Your orders and how you paid.

Your browser keeps an invite you have not saved yet, and its photos, on your own device until you save it.

From guests

When you reply to an invite: your name, whether you are coming, how many people, which celebrations, and any message, with the time you agreed to share them. We use them only to show them to the invite's hosts.

Replies are kept until 30 days after the invite ends, then deleted. The hosts can download them before then, and what they do with that copy is up to them.

Opening an invite records nothing about you personally. We count views per day, and the approximate city they come from, which our hosting provider works out; we never store your IP address.

Who sees it

An invite's replies are seen by its hosts: the person who made it and any co-hosts they add. Our founders can see them to run the service and to handle requests, and do nothing else with them. We do not sell or share anyone's data for advertising.

Who handles it for us

Cloudflare hosts the service and stores its data and photos. Google handles sign-in for people who choose it. Emails you send us arrive through Cloudflare and are read in Google's Gmail. When we take payments online and send emails from the service, the payment provider and email provider will handle what those need, and we will name them here.

Cookies

A sign-in cookie keeps you signed in. Two more remember, for 30 days, whether an invite or a shared design brought you to us, so we can count it; they hold no personal details. We use no advertising or cross-site cookies.

How long, and backups

Guests' replies: 30 days after the invite ends. Host accounts, invites and photos: until you ask us to delete them. A deleted photo's file goes a day after you delete it.

Our database keeps backups for a limited time, about 30 days, so deleted data stays in a backup until it rolls over. We do not restore it except to recover from a fault.

Your choices

You can ask us to see, correct or delete your data, whether you are a host or a guest. Write to support@bluekoel.com; we reply within 24 hours, and do what you asked within 7 days. If you are unhappy with how we handled it, write to our grievance officer, Sahil Alva, at grievance@bluekoel.com.