WineHarvest.com is the sole owner 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. WineHarvest.com 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 WineHarvest.com, Inc., follow the procedure outlined in the
Choice/Opt-out section below. 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 WineHarvest.com by
selecting “Your 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@WineHarvest.com.
For users of the Community section of WineHarvest.com, please see “Writing
Reviews/Community” section below.
Registration
No registration is required in order to use this website, though a user must
create an account prior to completing any purchase. 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.
Tell A Friend
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we
will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically
send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site.
WineHarvest.com does not store this information. Your friend may contact us at
privacy@WineHarvest.com to request that we remove this information from our
database.
Writing Reviews/Community
If you choose to Write a Review or post a profile on this Web site, you should
be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be
read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to
send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally
identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums. Members may
create a Community profile which allows you to create, publish and share your
wine reviews in a social setting. Here, members can post their photo and bios
along with their reviews. Members may access their Community account to update
or delete their personal information and change their privacy settings. To do
this simply log into the Community section and editing your profile.
Ordering
WineHarvest.com 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.
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.
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 WineHarvest.com, 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 and state
selections 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 and only the California catalog will be
available. In addition, the user will be unable to log in or 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.
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.
Sharing
We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in any way that
varies from what is disclosed in this statement.
WineHarvest.com 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 WineHarvest.com, 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.
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.
Links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that WineHarvest.com 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.
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. Users can unsubscribe at any time by following the link at the bottom of every subscription message.
Surveys & Contests
Our site requests 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
WineHarvest.com if authorized by the registrant, and will also be used for purposes of
monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.
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@WineHarvest.com.
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 WineHarvest.com may be
transferred to the new company. You will be notified via of any such change in
ownership or control of your personal information.
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.
YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
Beginning on January 1, 2005, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits
customers of WineHarvest.com 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@WineHarvest.com or write us:
Privacy Officer
WineHarvest.com, Inc.
20711 Sterlington Drive
Land O Lakes, FL 34638
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