Privacy Policy

Introduction

BirthdayCard.online ("we", "our", or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website or use our service.

Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site.

Information We Collect

We collect information that you provide directly to us when using our service:

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including to:

• Provide, maintain, and improve our services
• Process and complete transactions
• Send birthday reminders that you have requested
• Respond to your comments, questions, and requests
• Monitor and analyze usage patterns and trends
• Protect against, identify, and prevent fraud and other illegal activity

Sharing Your Information

We may share the information we collect in various ways, including:

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website and hold certain information. Cookies are files with small amounts of data that may include an anonymous unique identifier.

Specifically, we may use:

• Page views — page URL, IP address, user agent, referrer, approximate country (from CDN headers when available), optional user id, and a short-lived analytics session_id cookie (bc_sid / gc_sid) to understand navigation paths and time-to-create funnels.
• Curated idea clicks — when you click “View” on an idea card, we may store the idea URL, category, session id, and referrer page so we can improve recommendations.
• Legal consent / preference cookies — when you Accept or Decline, we store a signed preference cookie (bc_legal_pref) so we remember your choice for the current Privacy Policy and Terms versions. Decline may also set bc_legal_decline so we honor non-essential tracking off. You can cancel anytime on our Cookie Policy page.
• Google Analytics — when enabled, we load Google’s gtag.js (measurement ID configurable in Admin) to understand aggregate traffic. This is skipped if you decline non-essential tracking.
• Google AdSense / advertising cookies — third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet. Advertising scripts are not loaded when you decline non-essential tracking via our Cookie Policy banner.

Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also visit www.aboutads.info to opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising.

For more about how Google uses data when you use sites or apps that use Google services, see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

Full cookie names, durations, and manage controls: Cookie Policy.

Birthday Hubs, registries & suggestions

When Birthday Hubs are enabled, additional data may include:

• Registry / wishlist claims — claimer name and email (guests) or account id (logged-in), claim status, optional shipping/tracking proof (visible to the hub owner only if the claimer chooses).
• Gallery images — URLs or uploaded images and captions you add to a hub.
• Announcements & journal posts — titles, body content, visibility, and optional comments.
• Curated idea pipeline — registry items you suggest for the site Ideas catalog are reviewed by moderators before public listing.

Operational alerts (for example Discord or webhook notifications for errors or site events) may include limited technical context. See also our Terms of Service.

Data Security

We have implemented measures to protect the security of your information. However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.

Your Choices

You can choose not to provide certain information, but this may limit your ability to use some features of our service.

You can opt out of receiving email communications from us at any time by clicking the "unsubscribe" link in any email we send.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Email: privacy@birthdaycard.online

Or visit our Contact page.