Information Collection and Use
WineShopper and its parent company, Wine.com, are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in any way
that varies from what is disclosed in this statement. WineShopper collects information from our users at several different areas on our site.
You may receive information regarding new features, services and special offers we think you'll find valuable. We may also share information with carefully selected business
partners. These businesses may use the information we share to provide valuable opportunities and offers. If you'd like to opt out of future mailings from WineShopper, please select
the unsubscribe option at the bottom of any of our e-mails. When we present you with the opportunity to receive marketing opportunities from our business partners we will not automatically
subscribe you for these promotions, rather we will provide you with the opportunity to opt-in to these third party marketing programs.
You may also access the personal information you have submitted to WineShopper by selecting "Account" and editing the information as it exists in our system currently. You are also
able to access your information in order to update or delete it by sending us an email at privacy@wineshopper.com
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Registration
Registration is required in order to use this website, and a user must create an account on WineShopper prior to browsing our selection or completing any purchase. If you have a
Wine.com account, please use that account information. Changes to your WineShopper account will also change your
Wine.com account. Users are required to provide their name, date of birth, email address, zip code, and a password of 5-16 characters
in length. This information is necessary in order for us to contact users about services on our site for which they have expressed interest. It is optional for the user to provide a
phone number, but we encourage you to do so in order to have an alternate means of contact regarding an order.
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Invite A Friend
If you choose to use our referral service to invite a friend to become a member of WineShopper, we will ask you for your friend’s email address. We will automatically send your friend a
one-time email inviting them to become a member of the site. Your friend may contact us at privacy@wineshopper.com to request that we remove this information from our database.
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Ordering
WineShopper order forms request data from users including: Contact information such as name and shipping address; financial information such as credit card number, expiration date,
billing address, and billing phone number. This information is used for billing purposes to verify that the customer is of legal age, and to fill customers' orders. If we encounter
difficulty when processing an order, this contact information is used to contact the user. This information is harvested from a secure area and encrypted for our customers' protection.
It is not sold or shared with anyone else under any circumstances.
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Gift Recipients
We collect contact information, such as name, shipping address and phone number, for gift recipients to ensure correct gift delivery. We do not sell, share or rent any contact
information for gift recipients with third parties. We do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information that you provide to us regarding gift recipients, but they may
receive offers from us highlighting new features, new products and services and special offers we think they will find of interest. Also we may send marketing offers to gift
recipients on behalf of ourselves and our business partners. In connection with such offers, we allow gift recipients to opt out of receiving future marketing-related mailings from us.
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Cookies
A cookie is data stored on the end-user's hard drive with information that relates directly to the end-user's visit to our web site. Any information placed in the cookie is
accessible only to WineShopper, and will not be sold or shared with anyone else under any circumstances. We use a cookie to store a unique session identifier, which allows us to
maintain shopping cart from one page request to the next, and maintain session information from one visit to the next. By setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have
to log in more than once, thereby saving time while visiting our site. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still browse our site. However, the user experience will be greatly
curtailed. In addition, the user will be unable to make a purchase. Cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance users' experience and display
products that relate directly to individual user preferences. Cookies are tied to personal information but the information collected through cookies is never shared with third parties.
Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers, tracking utility services) use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies.
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Web Beacons
We employ or our third party advertising partner employs a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), that help us better manage content on our site by
informing us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users.
In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this
sentence. We do not tie the information gathered by clear gifs to our customers’ personally identifiable information.
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Third-Party Service Providers
We use third-party service providers to provide product recommendations and enhance your shopping experience on our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your
name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this Web site in order to provide personalized recommendations and advertisements about our goods and services
on our Web site as well as when you visit other Web sites.
If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here:
http://networkadvertising.org/consumer/opt_out.asp.
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Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track users' movement and gather demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally
identifiable sites.
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Sharing
We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in any way that varies from what is disclosed in this statement.
WineShopper will share aggregated demographic information with its partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.
We use an outside shipping company to ship orders, and a credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use
personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.
We value your privacy at WineShopper, and will never release any account information to anyone outside of the necessary core groups that help our business function unless our customers
give us the authority to do so.
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Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply
with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.
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Links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that WineShopper is not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when
they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected
by this Web site.
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Emails
If a user wishes to subscribe to our emails we ask for contact information such as name and email address. We may use your personal information for purposes other than sending
you promotional materials. For example, we may use your information to complete transactions requested by you, or to send you administrative communications about any account you
may have with us or about future changes to this Privacy Policy. If at any time you should wish to unsubscribe, please follow the instructions at the bottom of any of our e-mails
or e-mail us at privacy@wineshopper.com.
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Surveys & Contests
Our site may request information from users via surveys and contests. Participation in surveys and contests is voluntary and the user can choose to disclose information or not.
Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code and age level). Contact information will be
used to notify the winners and award prizes. This information may be used for marketing opportunities by WineShopper if authorized by the registrant, and will also be used for purposes
of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.
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Security
When our order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number), that information is encrypted with the best encryption
software in the industry - SSL (Secure Socket Layers) provided by VeriSign, the premier encryption Software Company available today. On a secure page such as our order form, the
lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers' switches to locked, as opposed to unlocked mode, and back to open mode when you are just browsing.
We also do everything in our power to protect user data offline. All sensitive information is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a
specific job (for example, a Customer Care representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information, and are required to lock their station when they leave their
station.
All employees are kept up to date on our security and privacy practices. Every quarter and whenever new policies are implemented, our employees are reminded about the importance
of keeping customer data secure and safe at all times. The servers with personally identifiable information are stored in a locked and secure environment.
If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send an email to: privacy@wineshopper.com
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Sale of Our Company
As a natural consequence of the development of our company, we could be sold to another company. In the event that another company acquires us or a significant portion of our assets
is sold to another company, all customer data including financial records and consumer information collected on WineShopper may be transferred to the new company. You will be notified
via of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.
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Changes in this Privacy Statement
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the home page, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what
information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email,
or by means of a notice on our home page.
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If you feel that our company is not abiding by its posted privacy policy, please contact the WineShopper Compliance Officer by email at privacy@wineshopper.com
or by mail at WineShopper, 114 Sansome Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94104.
YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
Beginning on January 1, 2005, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits customers of WineShopper who are California residents to request certain information regarding its
disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to
privacy@wineshopper.com or write us:
Privacy Officer
WineShopper
114 Sansome Street, Suite 210
San Francisco, CA 94104
The Privacy Notice posted on this site was updated May 6, 2010
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