Privacy notice

Your plan and your guests' details

The maker saves your work in this browser's own storage, on your device: the room, any floor plan picture you trace, guests' names and households, whether someone is a child, access needs, meal choices, dietary needs including allergies, and who sits where. None of it is sent to us.

Allergies and some dietary and access needs are health information. Because it never leaves your device, we don't handle it. Please add only what you need to seat and feed people.

You decide what goes in your guest list, so you're the one responsible for your guests' details: a couple for their wedding, a venue, school or planner for their event. If you're a guest and want to know what an organiser holds about you, ask them. We don't have it.

If you clear your browser's data, or use another device, your plan isn't there. Some browsers, Safari among them, can also remove a site's saved data when you haven't visited for a while. To keep your plan, download a copy from the File menu: an .usherwise file, saved wherever you choose. That file holds everything listed above, so look after it as you would the guest list itself.

On a shared computer, use File, then Clear this browser, when you've finished. It removes the plan, the guest list and the floor plan pictures from the browser.

Counting visits

The public pages (the seating chart maker's page and the seating plan maker's page) and this notice use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count visits. The maker itself opens on its own page, which doesn't carry it.

It doesn't use cookies or your browser's storage, and it doesn't fingerprint you, so there's no cookie banner. Cloudflare says it doesn't track people across the sites that use it.

For each page view it records: the page's address without anything after a question mark (query strings aren't logged), the site you came from, your country, the kind of device, browser and operating system, how you reached the page (a link, a reload, the back button), and how fast the page loaded and settled. What Cloudflare Web Analytics collects.

Cloudflare keeps every recorded page view for 7 days, then a sample of about a tenth. We can look back over six months. Cloudflare Web Analytics questions and answers.

Nothing you type into the maker is sent to analytics: not guests' names, not their needs, not your plan. The maker's page has no analytics script on it at all.

What we do handle: delivering the site

The site is served by Cloudflare, which acts for us as our processor. To deliver each page and keep the site secure it handles the technical details of your request, such as your IP address, the page asked for and your browser type. Cloudflare runs a worldwide network, so this can happen outside the UK, under the safeguards in its data processing terms. How long it keeps this is set out in its own policy. Cloudflare's privacy policy.

For that, and for counting visits, we are the controller. We rely on our legitimate interest in running a working, secure site and knowing roughly how many people use it.

There are no accounts, no sign-up and no email list on this site, and we don't sell or share anything about you.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you can ask an organisation what it holds about you, ask for it to be corrected or deleted, ask for its use to be restricted, and object to its use. We hold nothing from the maker, so there's nothing there for us to send or delete: your plan is yours, on your device. For the request details Cloudflare handles for us, write to us and we'll help.

If you have a question or a complaint, write to us at the email address below. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office. ico.org.uk.

Who we are

Usherwise is run by Chanikul Dechpholkrang, trading as Usherwise.

For anything about privacy, write to privacy@usherwise.com.

Changes

When plans can be saved online, with an account, this notice will change first to say what is stored, why, for how long, and how to delete it.