Privacy & Cookie Policy

Last updated: September 11, 2026

Gather with Dawn respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you provide. This Privacy & Cookie Policy explains how personal information is collected, used, stored and protected when you visit this website or communicate with Gather with Dawn.

Gather with Dawn is a wedding officiant serving West Kelowna, Peachland and surrounding areas in British Columbia.

This policy is intended to comply with British Columbia's Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) and applies to personal information collected through this website and through direct communications with Gather with Dawn.

1. Personal Information We Collect

"Personal information" means information that can reasonably identify an individual.

The website does not use contact forms, online booking forms or other tools that ask you to submit personal information directly through the website.

If you choose to contact Gather with Dawn by telephone or email, personal information may be collected as part of communicating with you and providing services. Depending on the nature of your inquiry or wedding ceremony, this may include:

Your name
Phone number
Email address
Wedding date
Wedding or ceremony location
Information about your ceremony or wedding plans
Information you voluntarily provide about yourself, your partner or your event
Other information reasonably necessary to respond to your inquiry or provide officiating services

Gather with Dawn collects only information that is reasonably necessary for these purposes.

2. How We Collect Personal Information

Personal information may be collected when you:

Call Gather with Dawn using a telephone number provided on the website
Email Gather with Dawn
Communicate with Gather with Dawn about wedding officiating services
Become a client and provide information necessary to plan and perform your ceremony

The website itself does not provide contact forms, online booking forms or account registration.

3. How We Use Personal Information

Personal information may be used to:

Respond to inquiries and requests
Communicate with prospective and existing clients
Discuss and plan wedding ceremonies
Provide wedding officiating services
Coordinate ceremony details
Maintain business and client records
Meet legal, regulatory, accounting or other legitimate business requirements
Protect the security and integrity of our business and services

Gather with Dawn does not use personal information for unrelated purposes without obtaining consent where required by law.

4. Consent

Where required by law, Gather with Dawn will obtain consent before collecting, using or disclosing personal information.

By voluntarily providing personal information for the purpose of making an inquiry or engaging Gather with Dawn's services, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of that information for the purposes reasonably necessary to respond to your request and provide services.

You may withdraw consent to certain uses of your personal information by contacting Gather with Dawn. Withdrawal of consent does not affect information that Gather with Dawn is required or permitted to retain for legal, accounting, contractual or other legitimate purposes.

5. Disclosure of Personal Information

Gather with Dawn does not sell or rent personal information.

Personal information may be disclosed when reasonably necessary to:

Provide requested services
Use service providers that support the operation of the business, such as website hosting or email services
Comply with applicable laws, legal requirements or lawful requests
Protect the rights, safety or property of Gather with Dawn or others
Prevent or investigate fraud, security issues or other unlawful activity

Service providers may only receive the information reasonably necessary for them to provide their services.

6. Website Hosting and Wix

This website is built and hosted using Wix. Wix may collect certain technical information and use cookies or similar technologies to operate, secure and maintain the website.

Gather with Dawn does not use Google Analytics, advertising pixels, marketing trackers or other third-party analytics integrations on this website.

For more information about how Wix handles information and cookies, visitors can review Wix's own privacy and cookie information.

7. Cookies

Cookies are small files stored on your device when you visit a website.

This website may use essential cookies and similar technologies provided by Wix. These technologies help the website function properly and may be used for purposes such as:

Website security
Fraud and abuse prevention
Website functionality and stability
Session management
Website performance and technical operation

Gather with Dawn does not intentionally add analytics, advertising or marketing cookies to this website.

Because Wix operates the website platform, Wix may place certain cookies that are necessary for the operation and security of the website. The specific cookies used may change as Wix updates its platform and services.

You can manage or delete cookies through your web browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect how some websites function.

8. Information Automatically Collected When You Visit the Website

Like most websites, the Wix platform may automatically process certain technical information when you visit the website, such as information related to your device, browser, IP address, security and website activity.

This information is primarily used by Wix to operate, secure and maintain the website and its infrastructure.

Gather with Dawn does not use this information to personally identify website visitors or for behavioural advertising or marketing analytics.

9. Protecting Personal Information

Gather with Dawn takes reasonable steps to protect personal information against unauthorized access, collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification or disposal.

However, no method of transmitting or storing information electronically can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

10. Retention of Personal Information

Gather with Dawn retains personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, to provide services, maintain appropriate business records, resolve disputes, or meet legal, accounting or other applicable requirements.

When personal information is no longer required, reasonable steps will be taken to securely dispose of or anonymize it.

11. Your Privacy Rights

Under British Columbia's Personal Information Protection Act, you may have the right to:

Request access to personal information Gather with Dawn holds about you
Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal information
Ask questions about how your personal information is collected, used or disclosed
Withdraw consent where applicable

To make a privacy-related request, please contact:

Dawn
Gather with Dawn
Email: gatherwithdawn@gmail.com

Gather with Dawn will make reasonable efforts to respond to privacy requests within the time required by applicable law.

12. Privacy Concerns

If you have a question or concern about how your personal information is handled, please contact Dawn at: gatherwithdawn@gmail.com

If you are not satisfied with the response, you may also contact the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia (OIPC) regarding your privacy rights under PIPA.

13. Changes to This Policy

This Privacy & Cookie Policy may be updated from time to time to reflect changes to the website, business practices, technology or applicable privacy requirements.

The most recent version will be posted on this website with the updated date.

Contact

For questions about this Privacy & Cookie Policy or the handling of your personal information:

Gather with Dawn
West Kelowna & Peachland, British Columbia
gatherwithdawn@gmail.com