Privacy

Last updated 15 November 2026

VivahDiary is a private website for a family's wedding: the invitation, and an album where invited guests share photos and find the ones they are in. This page says what is kept about you, why, and what you can do about it.

Questions, or a request to see, correct or delete what is kept about you: write to vivahdiary@gmail.com. We answer as soon as we can, and within 30 days.

What is kept

Your name and email address, when you sign in to the album. The email is how we recognise you the next time, and where a sign-in code is sent if you choose that way. If you sign in with Google instead, Google tells us your name and email address and confirms the address is yours; we receive nothing else from your Google account.
The photos and videos you add, with their file name, the event you chose and the time they were taken. A photo file can carry details written into it by the camera, such as the date and sometimes the place; these stay inside the original file.
A measurement of your face, only if you switch on “Find my photos” and tick the consent box. The selfie is taken with your camera at that moment and is deleted as soon as it has been measured; what is kept is a set of numbers that describes a face.
Measurements of the faces in the photos. So that a match can be found, every face in every photo added to the album is measured in the same way, whoever is in the photo. These numbers are not tied to a name, and are used only to answer “which photos is this guest in?” for a guest who has switched that on. Videos are never measured.
If the family sent you an invitation: the name they wrote on it, the events you are invited to and, if they entered it, your phone number, which they use to send you the link.
A record of what you agreed to, and when: these terms, and face matching if you switched it on or off.
Ordinary technical records made when any website is used, such as the time of a request and the internet address it came from. These are kept for 30 days.

Opening an invitation does not need a sign-in, and nothing is kept about who opened it. There is no advertising. Two things are fetched from Google when a page opens: the lettering (Google Fonts) and, on sign-in screens, the “Continue with Google” button. Previews of album pictures you have looked at are kept on your own phone so the album opens quickly; they are removed when you sign out.

Why it is kept, and who sees it

You see the photos and videos you added, and the photos you are in.
The hosts (the family) see everything guests add.
Another guest sees a photo you added only if they are in it and have switched on “Find my photos”. They also see the name you signed in with, as the person who added it.
Nothing is sold, and nothing is shared with anyone else, unless the law requires it.

Where it is kept

On Amazon Web Services in Mumbai, India, in encrypted storage. Faces are measured by Amazon Rekognition, also in Mumbai. Sign-in codes are emailed from our Gmail address (a Google service) or through Amazon's email service. If you sign in with Google, or add photos from a Google Drive folder you have shared, your browser talks to Google for that. Amazon and Google handle this information only to provide those services.

How long it is kept

Face measurements: deleted when you switch face matching off, and in any case 90 days after the last event of the wedding.
Photos and videos: until you delete yours, or the family closes the album.
Your name, email and the record of what you agreed to: until you ask us to delete them, or the album is closed.
Sign-in codes: ten minutes.

Your choices

Delete any photo or video you added: open it and press Delete.
Switch face matching off at any time: “Find my photos”, then “Switch off and delete my face”. Your consent is withdrawn and your face measurement is deleted at once.
Ask to see, correct or delete everything kept about you, or ask for a photo of you to be removed, by writing to vivahdiary@gmail.com.

Children

The album is for adults. Face matching may be switched on only by someone who is 18 or older. For a child, a parent or guardian should use their own sign-in. If a child's photo should be removed, write to us and it will be.

Changes

If this page changes in a way that matters, the date at the top changes and you are asked to agree again when you next sign in.