At WineInWA, we care about protecting your data and privacy.
We understand that your privacy is very important. This document describes the personal information we receive and collect when you use the WineInWA website, as well as some of the measures we take to protect information. It will help you make an informed decision about whether to share your personal information with us.
WineInWA is committed to maintaining the highest standards of decency, fairness and honesty in all of our practices. Similarly, we are committed to protecting the privacy of our customers and visitors to our site.
About our cookies
A cookie is a text string of information that WineInWA sends to your computer’s browser, which is then stored there. We use cookies to identify and track visitors, their usage of our site, and their website access preferences.
Google Analytics cookies
WineInWA uses Google Analytics to analyze website usage. Google Analytics collects demographic and interest data and generates statistical and other information about your use of the site through the use of cookies. These cookies are stored on your computer. We provide this information to Google, who stores and uses it on their servers. Google’s privacy policy is available here.
WineInWA uses information from Google Analytics to track website traffic, browsers and operating systems. No personally identifiable information comes from these cookies. We use the information that Google Analytics generates about our site to generate reports about site usage. These reports allow us to update the site and improve its usage.
If you do not want your data to be collected through Google Analytics, you can install an extension or browser add-on to opt out.
Opting out of cookies
You can set your browser to automatically accept or reject all cookies, or to notify you when a cookie is requested. This action will not cause problems with your continued use of our site. Please refer to the “Help” section of your browser to learn how to refuse all cookies or notify you when a cookie is requested. If you choose to decline cookies from the WineInWA site, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.
Personal Information
WineInWA may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:
- To administer and operate our site.
- To display the site content correctly.
- To improve our customer service.
- To help us respond more effectively to your requests and support needs.
- To personalize your user experience.
- To understand how our users generally use the services and resources provided on our site.
- To improve our site.
- To improve our products and services.
- To conduct promotions, contests, surveys, or other site features.
- To send you information that you have agreed to receive about topics that we think will be of interest to you.
- To send periodic emails, which may include email newsletters and/or a series of auto-responder emails. To respond to your inquiries, questions and/or other requests.
WineInWA may receive personal information from you in various ways, including when you visit our site, register on the site or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we provide on our site.
In particular, if you sign up for our newsletter, we ask for your first and last name and require your email address.
If you are filling out a form, we ask for your name and email address, and we ask for information related to the purpose of the form.
If you purchase a product or service from us, we will get your name, email address, billing address, and credit card number.
You can always choose not to provide personal information and visit our site anonymously. However, doing so may prevent you from performing certain activities related to the site.
If we make material changes to our collection of personal information, we will notify you by posting a notice on our site. We will only use the personal information we collect from you for internal purposes and will not sell or share it with third parties.
We also collect each visitor’s IP address to help us fight spam and scams. We do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information
We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with our site. Non-personally identifiable information may include your browser name, type of computer and technical information about the way you connect to our site, such as the operating system and Internet service provider you used, and other similar information.
Child Privacy Protection
This site is intended for adults. It is not intended for children under the age of 16. We use our site in accordance with the applicable rules. Individuals under the age of 18 must provide parental consent to use this site. We do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18.
Transfers of Information
If we sell the WineInWA site, information obtained from you as a result of your voluntary participation in our site may be transferred to a new owner as part of the sale so that you can continue to use the services provided to you. In this case, you will receive notice through our website of the change in controls and policies and we will use reasonable efforts to ensure that the new owner honors all of your requests to opt-out.
Data Retention
Personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information collected on this site is stored on our host servers.
Updates and Effective Date
WineInWA reserves the right to make changes to this policy. If there are significant changes to our cookie system and privacy policy, we will indicate on our site that this policy has changed and provide a link to the updated privacy policy. We encourage you to review this policy periodically so you know what information we collect and how we use it.
Consent to Terms
If you do not agree to the WineInWA privacy policy posted here on this site, please do not consent to the installation of cookies or to the collection and storage of your personal information.
Your explicit consent signifies your acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.