Privacy Policy:
At WineInfo.com, we recognize that privacy is an important issue, so we design and operate our services with the protection of your privacy in mind. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information we gather when you use the WineInfo.com website, as well as some of the steps that we take to safeguard it.
This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that WineInfo.com does not own or control, or to people that WineInfo.com does not employ or manage.
The following principles apply to the personally identifying information we ask for and that you provide. “Personally identifying information” is information that individually identifies you, such as your name or email address.
Data Collection
Only the “Contact Us” form requires any personally identifying information. WineInfo.com collects limited non-personally identifying information your browser makes available whenever you visit a website. This log information includes your Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your query and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser. We use this information to operate, develop and improve our services.
Information Sharing
We do not rent, sell or share personally identifying information about you with other people or companies, except under the following conditions:
We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of WineInfo.com’s terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
In the event of a transfer of ownership of WineInfo, LLC, such as acquisition by or merger with another company, we will provide notice before any personally identifying information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
We may share aggregated information with others, such as how many users clicked on a particular advertisement. This aggregated information does not include your personally identifying information.
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data.
We restrict access to your personally identifying information to employees who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services.
Links
The sites displayed as search results or linked to by WineInfo.com are developed by people over whom WineInfo.com exercises no control. These other sites may place their own cookies on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information.
Changes to This Policy
This Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will post those changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will also provide a more prominent notice. Each version will be noted at the top of the page.
Updating or Deleting Your Information
We provide mechanisms for updating and correcting your personally identifying information for our services at any time, and you can delete this information at any time.
Updated Policy Information
The following changes became effective as of April 1, 2009, as a requirement for using certain Google applications:
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please click on this link: http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html
Cookies Policy:
A cookie is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. You can also erase cookies that are already on your computer.
Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to its users based on their visit to its site and/or other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. Alternatively, users may opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.)