Privacy, in plain language.

Your recipient card

If you use the planner without signing in, the recipient name, relationship, interests, per-person budget and saved gift ideas are kept in this browser's local storage. Anyone who can use this browser profile may be able to see that copy. When you sign in or create an account, GiftWise can connect the card to your account and save those same fields on GiftWise servers so the card is available on other devices. The browser copy remains on this device as well. If the browser and account copies differ, GiftWise shows both and waits for you to choose before replacing either copy. The browser also keeps an account-link marker so a card connected to one account is not imported into another.

The paid shopping list and Secret Santa participant names are also saved in this browser when you use those tools. The Secret Santa screen shows one participant's match at a time and does not display an organizer match list. GiftWise does not send the participant list to its server. CSV and PDF exports send the current card and shopping-list values to GiftWise's export route for that request; the generated file is returned to your browser and the export route does not save the values.

Account information and recovery

An account uses your email address and password-based authentication. GiftWise does not ask for a profile name; the authentication system stores a generic account label, authentication credential records and session records needed to sign in, including session expiry and, when available, the session's IP address and browser user-agent. The authentication system records email verification when completed. Sign-up sends a verification message to the account email through configured Polsia email delivery. If you request a password reset, a time-limited link is sent to your account email through the same delivery service. Reset links expire after one hour. The delivery service receives the recipient email and reset link so it can deliver that message.

AI gift suggestions

After the paid bundle has been verified, if you ask for AI gift suggestions, GiftWise sends only the current card's interests and per-person budget in US dollars to Polsia-managed AI processing. The recipient's name and relationship are not included in that AI request. GiftWise does not create a separate AI request record. Suggestions are based on interests and budget; GiftWise does not check current prices or stock. This page does not make claims about how long an external processing service retains a request.

Contacting GiftWise

If you email giftwise@polsia.io, your message and email address are sent through your email service and delivered to us so we can reply. Do not include sensitive information in your message.

Website operations

Like other websites, the service that delivers these pages may process basic technical information needed to answer a request, such as request time and network or browser details. A browser-only card is not sent to the card-storage API. An account-linked card is sent to that API for storage and retrieval under the signed-in account.

Meta Pixel

GiftWise uses Meta Pixel, operated by Meta, to measure page visits, completed account sign-ups and confirmed purchases. It sends a PageView when a page first loads and when you move to another page in the app, a Lead only after GiftWise confirms account creation, and a Purchase only after Stripe confirms a GiftWise checkout. A Purchase includes the buyer-paid gross amount and currency returned in the verified payment record; it does not use seller proceeds or a price from the browser. The current offer is $9 USD once, with no subscription.

These events do not include your email, password, recipient names or relationships, interests, budgets, gift ideas, Secret Santa participants, shopping-list contents or Stripe checkout session ID. Checkout session IDs and other unrecognized query values and other unrecognized query values and fragments are removed from the page URL before the Pixel records a page view; UTM campaign tags and Meta's click attribution ID may remain. Meta's tracker can receive the page URL and browser/device information such as your IP address, browser and operating-system details, and available Meta browser identifiers or cookies. Meta receives the event when the tracker can run. Blocking it or having it unavailable does not stop the planner, account sign-up or payment verification.

Payments

The paid bundle costs $9 USD one time, with no subscription. It includes a browser-saved list with CSV and PDF export, Secret Santa, AI gift suggestions, a store-grouped shopping list and printable gift tags. Checkout uses the Polsia-managed Stripe integration, which collects payment details directly from you. GiftWise checks the checkout result on its server before unlocking the bundle and does not store recipient details with that payment check. No card details are collected in the planner.

Questions

For privacy questions, email giftwise@polsia.io.