Privacy Policy

BeforeVows is a service of Magmira Inc, Chicago, Illinois, USA (full address to be confirmed) ("Magmira", "we", "us"). This policy explains what we collect when you use BeforeVows, why, who can see it, how long we keep it, and what you can do about it.

1. Who is responsible

Magmira Inc is the company responsible for your information. Contact: support@beforevows.app or Magmira Inc, Chicago, Illinois, USA (full address to be confirmed).

2. Where this policy applies

This policy covers the BeforeVows website and service, including the Couple Assessment, Pair Report, decision sheet, the Private Passport (when available), emails we send, and support. BeforeVows is a conversation tool. It is not therapy, counselling, legal advice, financial advice or emergency support.

3. What we collect

Information you give us

• Account: your email address, first name, and your confirmation that you are 18 or older.
• Answers and notes: your answers to the questions, including any optional notes you write. These cover topics such as money, family, conflict, commitment, daily life, work and place to live, children, and intimacy and boundaries.
• Private safety answers: answers to a few questions only you can see.
• Connection details: your partner's first name and email address, which you enter to invite them, and an optional short message.
• Decision sheet: the lines you and your partner write about what you decided, and dates you set.
• Support messages and the details you put in them.
• Research responses: if you opt in during the pilot, how you used each question screen, and your feedback.

Information from your partner's use of the service

• Whether they accepted, finished, approved, and (when payments are on) paid, and their answers as they appear in your shared report, as described in section 5.

Information collected automatically

• IP address, browser and device type, pages and actions in the service, and security signals. We use these to keep the service working and safe. We keep answers and notes out of logs, web addresses, analytics and error reports.
• Cookies and similar storage described in our Cookie Policy.

Payments

• Payments are handled by our payment provider, Stripe. We do not receive or store your full card number. We keep a record of the payment (amount, date, status and reference numbers).

Sensitive information. Because of the topics covered, your answers may include sensitive information, such as information about your finances, family, children, and intimate life. We ask for your explicit agreement before you start the questions. We use this information only to provide the service you asked for.

4. How we use information

• To run the service: sign you in, send invitations, store your answers, compare them with your partner's, create your report and decision sheet, and let you download them.
• To take payments and apply pair credits and promo codes.
• To send emails about your account and connection (sign-in links, invitations, receipts, report ready). With your preferences, we also send reminders and follow-ups. Some emails always send (see below).
• To keep the service safe: prevent abuse, fraud, harassment and misuse, enforce our Terms and Community Guidelines, and respond to reports.
• To support you.
• To understand and improve the service using counts and de-identified or aggregated information (for example how many people finish each section). We use the content of your answers for research only if you opt in separately.
• To meet legal obligations.

Legal bases (for people in the EEA, UK and similar regions). Performing our contract with you; your consent (for sensitive information, optional emails and research); our legitimate interests in security and improving the service; and legal obligations. You can withdraw consent at any time in your account or by contacting us.

5. Who sees your information

• Your partner. Only for the connection you both agreed to. After you both submit and approve, your partner can see your answer on topics where you differ, shown in the report. They cannot see answers on topics you share, answers you chose not to give, your notes, your safety answers, other connections, or anything you did not choose to share. The decision sheet is visible to both of you.
• Someone you choose to send your decision sheet to. If you use "Send to someone", the sheet (agreed lines only, not answers) goes to the address you type.
• Service providers who process data for us under contract: hosting and database, email delivery, payments (Stripe), error monitoring, and privacy-friendly analytics. They may use it only to provide their service to us.
• Legal and safety. We may disclose information when we believe the law requires it, or to protect people's safety, our rights or the service.
• Business changes. If Magmira is part of a merger, sale or reorganisation, information may transfer, with the protections in this policy.
• We do not sell your personal information and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising.
• Admins at Magmira cannot read your answers. Support tools show connection status, not answers.

6. International transfers

BeforeVows is run from the United States. If you use it from another country, your information is processed in the United States and in the countries where our providers operate. Where required, we use approved safeguards for transfers. LAWYER: confirm the transfer mechanism if EU/UK users are served.

7. Your rights and choices

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to know and access what we hold, correct it, delete it, receive a copy in a portable form, object to or restrict some uses, withdraw consent, and not be treated unfairly for using your rights. You can:

• Download your data and delete your account in Account → Your data.
• End a connection at any time. Both people lose access to the report and decision sheet.
• Change email preferences in Account → Your data. Sign-in links, receipts, safety notices and legal notices always send.
• Contact us at support@beforevows.app for anything else, including questions, appeals and complaints. We will not make you pay or lose service for using your rights.
• If you think we got something wrong, you may also complain to your local data protection authority or, in the US, your state attorney general.

California and other US states. In the last 12 months we have not sold personal information or shared it for cross-context behavioural advertising. We use sensitive personal information only to provide the service. Authorised agents may submit requests at support@beforevows.app with proof of authority. We verify requests by email. LAWYER: confirm state-by-state notices required at our size.

8. How long we keep information

• Unsubmitted answers: 12 months after your last activity, then deleted (we email you at 11 months).
• Submitted answers, report and decision sheet: available for 12 months from unlock, then archived or deleted.
• Account deletion: when you ask, we close your account, end your connections and delete your information after a 30-day waiting period in which you can cancel. Some information stays as the law requires, such as payment and tax records.
• Backups roll off within 30 days. Security logs are kept up to 90 days.
• A copy of your decision sheet that your partner holds is theirs; ending a connection removes access to it for both of you.

LAWYER and owner: confirm these periods before launch.

9. How we protect information

Answers and notes are encrypted at rest. Connections are encrypted in transit. Access to production data is restricted and logged. No method is perfectly secure, so we cannot promise absolute security, but we work to protect your information and have a plan for responding to incidents and notifying you where the law requires.

10. No children

BeforeVows is for people 18 and older. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18. If you believe a person under 18 has an account, contact support@beforevows.app and we will delete it.

11. Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we will update the date and, for important changes, tell you by email or in the service before they take effect. Earlier versions are available on request.

12. Contact

Magmira Inc · Chicago, Illinois, USA (full address to be confirmed) · support@beforevows.app