Privacy Policy

Giftsama is a gift planning web app that helps users organize occasions, recipients, gift ideas, budgets, gift statuses, notes, and reminders.

For this Privacy Policy, "Giftsama," "we," "us," and "our" mean [Insert Legal Company Name], the company that owns and operates Giftsama. "You" and "your" mean the person who visits our website, creates an account, or uses our service.

This Privacy Policy applies to:

• The Giftsama website
• The Giftsama web app
• User accounts
• Free and paid plan features
• Email communications
• Billing-related account information
• Support messages
• Future reminder features
• Any other service that links to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party websites, stores, apps, or services that Giftsama does not own or control.

For example, if you save an Amazon, Target, Etsy, or other shopping link inside Giftsama, that store’s own privacy policy applies when you visit or buy from that store.

We collect information in a few different ways. Some information is provided directly by you. Some information is created when you use Giftsama. Some information may be collected automatically through cookies, analytics tools, or similar technologies.

Account Information

When you create an account, we may collect:

• Name
• Email address
• Password or authentication details
• Account creation date
• Login details
• Account status
• Plan type, such as Free or Pro
• Timezone
• Communication preferences

We use this information to create your account, let you log in, keep your account secure, and provide Giftsama to you.

Gift Planning Information

When you use Giftsama, you may add gift planning information such as:

• Occasion names
• Occasion dates
• Occasion budgets
• Recipient names
• Recipient relationship types, such as family, friend, teacher, coworker, neighbor, or other
• Recipient budgets
• Gift ideas
• Gift names
• Gift URLs
• Estimated prices
• Actual prices
• Gift images
• Gift notes
• Gift status, such as idea, bought, wrapped, or given
• Personal notes related to gift planning
• Favorite shopping sites
• General gift preferences

This information helps Giftsama organize your gift planning and show your budgets, spending, and gift progress.

Profile and Preference Information

You may choose to add profile or preference details, such as:

• Budget range
• Favorite shopping sites
• General gift notes
• Timezone
• Gift planning preferences

This helps Giftsama feel more personal and useful.

Billing and Payment Information

If you purchase a paid plan, we may collect billing-related information such as:

• Plan purchased
• Billing period
• Payment status
• Renewal status
• Subscription ID
• Transaction ID
• Billing email
• Last four digits of a payment card, if provided by the payment processor
• Payment processor customer ID

Payments are handled by a third-party payment processor. We do not store full credit card numbers on our own servers.

Your payment processor may collect and process payment details according to its own privacy policy and terms.

Email and Communication Information

If you contact us, join a waitlist, request support, or respond to an email, we may collect:

• Your name
• Your email address
• Your message
• Support request details
• Any files, screenshots, or information you send to us
• Email delivery and engagement data, where supported by our email provider

Technical and Usage Information

When you use Giftsama, we may automatically collect certain technical information, such as:

• IP address
• Browser type
• Device type
• Operating system
• Referring page
• Pages viewed
• Features used
• Date and time of access
• Login activity
• Error logs
• General location based on IP address
• Cookies and similar identifiers

We use this information to keep Giftsama working, improve the product, understand usage, prevent abuse, and protect account security.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Giftsama may use cookies, pixels, local storage, and similar technologies. These may help us:

• Keep you logged in
• Remember preferences
• Understand website traffic
• Improve the app
• Measure marketing performance
• Detect fraud or abuse
• Improve security

You can control cookies through your browser settings. If you block cookies, some parts of Giftsama may not work correctly.

We use your information to provide, maintain, protect, and improve Giftsama. This includes using information to:

• Create and manage your account
• Let you log in
• Save your occasions, recipients, gift ideas, budgets, statuses, and notes
• Show your gift planning dashboard
• Track budget totals and spending
• Process paid plan access
• Send account, billing, and service emails
• Send reminder emails or notifications, if enabled
• Provide customer support
• Respond to your questions
• Improve the website and app
• Fix bugs and technical issues
• Protect against fraud, spam, abuse, and unauthorized access
• Measure product usage
• Develop new features
• Comply with legal obligations
• Enforce our Terms of Service

We do not sell your personal gift planning data. We may share limited information with trusted service providers that help us run Giftsama.

Service Providers

We may share information with companies that help us operate the service, such as:

• Website hosting providers
• Database and storage providers
• Email service providers
• Payment processors
• Analytics providers
• Error monitoring tools
• Security tools
• Customer support tools

These providers only receive the information needed to perform their services for us.

Payment Processors

If you purchase a paid plan, your payment information is processed by a third-party payment provider. We may receive payment-related account details, but we do not store full card numbers.

Legal and Safety Reasons

We may share information if we believe it is necessary to:

• Follow the law
• Respond to a legal request
• Protect our rights
• Protect user safety
• Prevent fraud or abuse
• Investigate security issues
• Enforce our Terms of Service
• Protect Giftsama from harm

Business Transfers

If Giftsama is involved in a merger, acquisition, sale of assets, financing, restructuring, or similar business transaction, user information may be transferred as part of that transaction.

If that happens, we will take reasonable steps to make sure your information remains protected.

Giftsama does not:

• Sell your gift lists
• Publicly share your recipients or gift ideas
• Act as a shopping platform
• Process purchases for third-party gifts
• Decide what gifts you should buy
• Share your gift planning data with other users
• Use your private notes as public content
• Require you to connect a social media profile

Giftsama is a private planning tool for the gift buyer.

If privacy laws require us to explain our legal bases for processing personal information, we rely on the following:

To Provide the Service

We process information because it is needed to provide Giftsama. For example, we need your account information to let you log in, and we need your gift planning data to show your occasions and gift lists.

Consent

We may rely on consent for certain activities, such as optional marketing emails or certain cookies where required.

Legitimate Interests

We may process information for legitimate business interests, such as improving Giftsama, preventing abuse, securing accounts, and understanding how users use the service.

Legal Obligations

We may process information to comply with tax, accounting, legal, security, or regulatory obligations.

We keep your information only as long as needed for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. In general:

• Account information is kept while your account is active
• Gift planning data is kept while your account is active
• Billing records may be kept as required for tax, accounting, and legal reasons
• Support messages may be kept to help us respond to future issues
• Technical logs may be kept for security, debugging, and abuse prevention
• Deleted account data may remain in backups for a limited period before being removed through normal backup cycles

If you delete your account or request deletion, we will take reasonable steps to delete or anonymize your personal information, unless we need to keep certain information for legal, tax, billing, security, fraud prevention, or legitimate business reasons.

Depending on where you live, you may have certain privacy rights. These may include the right to:

• Access the personal information we have about you
• Correct inaccurate information
• Delete your personal information
• Request a copy of your information
• Object to certain processing
• Limit certain uses of your information
• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
• Opt out of marketing emails
• Ask questions about how your information is used

To make a privacy request, contact us at privacy@giftsama.com.

We may need to verify your identity before completing your request.

If you sign up for marketing emails, we may send you updates, product news, launch announcements, tips, or offers related to Giftsama.

You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in the email or contacting us.

Even if you unsubscribe from marketing emails, we may still send important service emails, such as account verification, password reset, billing, security, or legal notices.

If you are a California resident, you may have rights under California privacy laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act.

Depending on whether the law applies to Giftsama, California residents may have rights to know what personal information is collected, access personal information, request deletion, request correction, limit certain uses of sensitive personal information, and opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information.

California residents can contact us at privacy@giftsama.com.

Giftsama is not intended for children under 13.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without proper consent, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information to Giftsama, contact us at privacy@giftsama.com.

We take reasonable steps to protect your information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure. These steps may include:

• Password protection
• Secure hosting
• Access controls
• Encryption where appropriate
• Monitoring for errors and abuse
• Limiting access to personal information
• Using trusted service providers

No internet service is perfectly secure. We cannot promise that your information will never be accessed, lost, or misused.

You can help protect your account by using a strong password, keeping your login details private, and contacting us if you notice suspicious activity.

Giftsama may be operated from one country while users may access it from another.

If you use Giftsama from outside the country where our systems or service providers are located, your information may be transferred, stored, or processed in another country.

Privacy laws may be different in those countries. By using Giftsama, you understand that your information may be processed in countries where we or our service providers operate.

Giftsama lets you save gift links from third-party websites. These websites are not controlled by Giftsama.

For example, if you save a product link from Amazon, Target, Etsy, Walmart, or another store, that store may collect information when you visit its website.

We are not responsible for:

• Third-party privacy practices
• Product pages
• Product prices
• Product availability
• Checkout pages
• Shipping or return policies
• Cookies or tracking used by third-party stores

Please review the privacy policies of any third-party websites you visit.

We may use analytics tools to understand how people find and use Giftsama. Analytics tools may collect information such as:

• Pages visited
• Button clicks
• Browser type
• Device type
• General location
• Referring websites
• Time spent on pages
• Error activity

We use analytics to improve Giftsama and understand which parts of the product are working well.

If we use analytics tools that require notice, consent, or opt-out rights in certain places, we will provide those choices where required.

Giftsama may use advertising or retargeting tools in the future to help people discover the product.

If we do, these tools may use cookies, pixels, or similar technologies to measure ads or show relevant ads.

If we start using these tools, we will update this Privacy Policy and provide any choices required by law.

Giftsama may offer reminder features that help you remember upcoming occasions or gift deadlines.

To send reminders, we may use:

• Occasion dates
• Recipient details
• Your timezone
• Your email address
• Notification preferences

Reminder delivery may depend on email providers, device settings, timezone settings, and third-party systems.

You can turn off reminder emails or notification settings where we provide that option.

You may request to delete your account by contacting us at privacy@giftsama.com.

When your account is deleted, we will take reasonable steps to delete or anonymize your personal information and gift planning data, unless we need to keep some information for:

• Legal compliance
• Tax records
• Billing records
• Fraud prevention
• Security logs
• Dispute resolution
• Backup systems
• Enforcement of our Terms of Service

Deletion from backup systems may take longer because backups are removed through normal retention cycles.

Where available, you may request a copy of your personal information or gift planning data.

We may provide this in a reasonable format, depending on what is technically available.

We may need to verify your identity before providing account data.

You are responsible for keeping your password safe.

Please do not share your login details with anyone.

If you believe someone has accessed your account without permission, contact us right away at support@giftsama.com.

We may reset passwords, suspend accounts, or take other steps if we believe an account is at risk.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.

If we make important changes, we may notify you by email, in-app notice, website notice, or another reasonable method.

The “Last Updated” date at the top will show when this Privacy Policy was last changed.

Your continued use of Giftsama after changes take effect means you accept the updated Privacy Policy.

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, your information, or your privacy rights, contact us at: