A cookie is a small file a website puts in your browser. Browser storage does the same job without being sent back to us on every page. We use both for two reasons: to make the site work for you (staying signed in, keeping the checklist you are filling in), and, only if you allow it, to understand how the directory is searched and to show content that comes from other companies.
We do not run advertising, we do not sell or share your personal information, and we do not load anybody else’s analytics or tracking scripts. Whatever you choose, you can change it at any time from the button at the top of this page, or from the “Cookie settings” link in the site footer, and a choice you make is kept for 6 months before we ask again.
Whether we ask you first depends on where you are. If your visit comes from the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area or Switzerland, we ask before anything optional runs and nothing optional runs until you say yes. Everywhere else, including the United States, the two optional groups below start switched on and you can switch them off whenever you like. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal we treat that as switching them off, wherever you are, and we do not show you a banner about it.
NecessaryAlways on
Always on. Keeps you signed in, remembers your cookie choices and saves your planning in this browser. The site does not work without these, and none of them is used to track you.
| Name | Type | Set by | What it is for | How long |
|---|---|---|---|---|
pwg_consent | Cookie | PA Wedding Guide | Remembers the choices you make on the cookie banner, so we do not ask on every visit. | 6 months |
pwg_region | Cookie | PA Wedding Guide | Records which country your request came from, as two letters and nothing more, so we know whether to ask for your permission before anything optional runs or to leave it on with a way to switch it off. No street, no town, and it is not used to target you. | 30 days |
sb-*-auth-token | Cookie | PA Wedding Guide (Supabase, our sign-in provider) | Keeps you signed in to your couple, vendor or admin account and refreshes the session as you move between pages. | Until you sign out, or until the session expires |
pwg_workspace | Cookie | PA Wedding Guide | For a signed-in account that has both a wedding to plan and a business to run, remembers which of the two you were last working in, so you come back to it instead of to whichever we would have picked. Set only when an account has more than one. | 30 days |
pwg_listing | Cookie | PA Wedding Guide | For a business account with more than one business on it, remembers which one the dashboard is showing, so every screen in it is about the same one. | 30 days |
pwg:* | Browser storage | PA Wedding Guide | Saves the work you do here in this browser: your checklist, guest list, budget, saved vendors, seating chart, registry, wedding website and the inquiries you have sent. For a business, the half-built listing, availability marks and lead filing. Nothing in it is read by anyone else. | Until you sign out or clear your browser data |
pwg:site-unlocked:* | Browser storage (this tab) | PA Wedding Guide | Remembers that you entered the password for a couple's wedding website, so you are not asked again on every page of it. | Until you close the tab |
pwg-admin-range | Browser storage | PA Wedding Guide | Staff only. Remembers the date range last chosen on an admin report. | Until cleared |
Search analyticsYour choice
Lets us count the searches from one browser as one visit, so we can see which filters couples use and which vendors nearly matched. It is a single anonymous id. It is never tied to your name or your account, and we do not load any third-party analytics.
| Name | Type | Set by | What it is for | How long |
|---|---|---|---|---|
pwg_sid | Browser storage | PA Wedding Guide | A random id with nothing in it, so the searches from one browser can be counted as one visit. Without it every search is still recorded, with no id at all. Deleted the moment you switch this off. | Until you switch search analytics off or clear your browser data |
Maps and players from other sitesYour choice
Loads the maps on a listing and in the directory, and the podcast and video players inside listings and articles. They come from OpenFreeMap, Spotify, Apple, YouTube and other providers, who see your IP address and may set cookies of their own. Left off, each one shows a button to load it instead.
| Name | Type | Set by | What it is for | How long |
|---|---|---|---|---|
OpenFreeMap | Content from another site | OpenFreeMap | The map tiles for the Location section of a listing and for the map view of the vendor directory. | Set by OpenFreeMap; see their policy |
Spotify | Content from another site | Spotify AB | The podcast player on a listing, when the episode is hosted there. | Set by Spotify; see their policy |
Apple Podcasts | Content from another site | Apple Inc. | The podcast player on a listing, when the episode is hosted there. | Set by Apple; see their policy |
YouTube | Content from another site | Google LLC | Video players inside articles, and the podcast player when an episode is on YouTube. | Set by Google; see their policy |
Vimeo | Content from another site | Vimeo.com, Inc. | Video players inside articles. | Set by Vimeo; see their policy |
Other podcast hosts | Content from another site | SoundCloud, Buzzsprout, Captivate, Podbean, Libsyn, Megaphone, iHeartRadio or Amazon Music | The podcast player on a listing, when the episode is hosted with one of these. | Set by the host; see their policy |
Changing your mind
Open from here or from the footer, switch anything off, and save. Turning search analytics off deletes the id it wrote. Turning off content from other sites stops every map and player loading; each one is replaced by a button that loads that one and turns the setting back on.
If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we treat it as a no to everything optional and do not show the banner at all. You can still turn things on from cookie settings.
We work out where a visit comes from using the two-letter country code our host reports, which is in the table above as pwg_region. It is not a street, not a town, and it is used for this decision and nothing else.
You can also clear or block cookies in your browser’s own settings. Blocking the necessary ones means you cannot stay signed in and the planning tools cannot save your work.
Questions
This page covers cookies and browser storage only. Write to info@paweddingguide.com or use the contact form with any question about it, or about the information you give us on a form. To see, copy, correct or delete what we hold about you, use the privacy request form.