Privacy

This page explains what Bidden collects, why, and who can see it. Bidden is run by ARG Interactive Designs in Los Angeles, California.

This website

This website does not ask for personal information. It has no accounts, cookies, analytics or advertising trackers. The sample invitations include a reply form so you can try it. It saves nothing and sends nothing. If you email or call us, we get what you send and use it only to reply. Our hosting provider keeps standard server logs, which can include your IP address and browser type, to run and protect the site.

This website uses temporary browser session storage to remember whether the loading screen has played and to restore your place when switching between desktop and phone layouts. These stored values contain no names, email addresses or RSVP answers. The website does not send them to us or use them for analytics or advertising.

Tracking and Do Not Track

We do not track visitors across other websites, and we do not put advertising or analytics trackers on this website or on invitations. We plan to use Cloudflare Turnstile on live reply forms, as described below. The sample reply forms do not use Turnstile. Because we do no tracking, we treat every browser the same. A Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal changes nothing, because there is nothing to switch off.

Planned invitation service

Bidden is not yet serving clients or collecting real guest replies. The invitation-service practices below describe our plans for launch. We will review this policy against the working service before collecting real guest replies.

When the service launches, planners will share invitation links with their guests. Guests will reply on the invitation itself without an account. A reply will include:

• the name the guest enters
• the email address the guest enters
• a yes or no for each day of the event
• a meal choice, if the invitation asks for one
• whether the guest is bringing a plus-one

Replies will go to the planner who ordered the invitation so they can plan the event. We will not sell replies or use them for marketing. We will use the email address to send the guest a thank-you after replying, a reminder before the event, and a notice if the plan changes. Live invitations will have no analytics or advertising trackers. We plan to use Cloudflare Turnstile on live reply forms to block spam. Turnstile can run without showing the guest anything. To tell people from bots, it reads technical signals from the guest's browser, such as the IP address, TLS fingerprint and user-agent. Cloudflare says it cannot directly identify individuals from the signals Turnstile collects. It uses them to block bots and to improve Turnstile, as described in Cloudflare's Turnstile Privacy Addendum.

How long we keep replies

For the planned service, an invitation link will work for up to a week after the event and then end. We plan to store replies in our database for one year after the link ends, then delete them. When replies close, on a date the planner gives us, we email the planner the list as a spreadsheet. Planners on the Branded plan can also see and download replies in their private Bidden workspace.

What deleting covers

Our planned deletion process covers replies in our database, replies shown in the workspace, and the spreadsheets we email from our own mail. We plan to keep database backups for 7 days before they expire, so a deleted reply could remain in a backup for up to 7 days. Once a planner receives or downloads a spreadsheet, the planner will be responsible for that copy. Deleting our copy will not delete the planner's copy. To have a planner's copy removed, ask the planner. We will verify the database, backup and email deletion procedures before the service launches.

Planners

When the service launches, planners will give us event details, their logo and brand, and their contact details. We will use them to build and run the invitations. If a planner stops working with us, we will stop using their logo and brand once any invitations they have already paid for have ended.

Service providers

• Supabase, which we plan to use to store live guest replies, including each guest's name and email address.
• Resend, which we plan to use to send thank-you, reminder and change emails to guests.
• Zoho Mail and Google (Gmail), which carry our email, including anything you send us. We plan to use them to send guest spreadsheets to planners once the service launches.
• Netlify, which hosts this website.
• Cloudflare, which manages the bidden.events domain. We plan to use its Turnstile service to check live reply forms for spam.

Seeing, correcting or deleting your reply

Once the live invitation service launches, you will be able to request access to, correction of or deletion of your reply by emailing office@arginteractivedesigns.com with the name of the event and the name and email address you used. Our planned response time is 30 days. While the invitation link works, you will be able to correct a reply by sending a new one from the same email address, which will replace the first. Your planner will also be able to request deletion through Bidden. We will handle the deletion on the planner's request. Planners will answer their guests' questions about an invitation, and we will answer the planners'.

Children

An invitation can name a child, for example on a birthday. Parents or guardians answer for them. We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13.

Changes

When this page changes, we update the date at the top.

Contact

ARG Interactive Designs
Doing business as Bidden
10464 Santa Monica Blvd, #6
Los Angeles, CA 90025
United States

Questions about this page: office@arginteractivedesigns.com.
Phone: 424 209 5039