This Privacy Policy applies to www.denisegardnerwinemaking.com (www.dgwinemaking.com/winemakers), owned and operated by Denise Gardner Winemaking, LLC. (“DG Winemaking”, “We”, “Us” “Our”). This Privacy Policy describes how DG Winemaking collects and uses the personal information you provide. It also describes the choices available to you regarding the use of, your access to, and how to update and correct your personal information. The use of information collected through our service shall be limited to the purpose of providing the service for which you have engaged DG Winemaking.
Collection of your Personal Information
- We value your trust. In order to honor that trust, DG Winemaking adheres to ethical standards in gathering, using, and safeguarding any information you provide.
- We will ask you when we need information that personally identifies you or allows us to contact you (“personal information”). For example, when you register for a subscription, we will need your contact information: name, company name (optional), address, phone number, email address, and when you provide payment information for a subscription, we will need your credit card information for billing. We do not retain your credit card information on our site, however, our credit card processor, Stripe, does retain your credit card information on their servers to facilitate reoccurring subscription processing. If you select “Remember Me” during checkout, Stripe will require you to enter your mobile phone number for security purposes. We will retain your name, company name, address, phone number and email address in a user profile. If you choose to use the “Group Subscription” feature promoted through dgwinemaking.com, we will ask for your friend or employee’s email address. We will automatically send them an email advising them of their new account. You are responsible for managing your sub-accounts, however, your friend or employee may contact us at info@dgwinemaking.com to request that we remove their account or email address from our databases.
- As is true of most websites, we gather site-visitation data automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
Use of your Personal Information and Other Data
- Personal Information: DG Winemaking uses the personal information you provide in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy. We use your personal information solely to provide our services to you. We also use your personal information together with other personally non-identifiable information to help us better understand our users and to improve the content and functionality of the site. In order to create an account with our site, we only require you to provide first name, last name, street address, city, state, zip code, phone number, and email address. We will only use your profile information to personalize and improve your experience with our platform.
- Non-Identifiable Data: We use our log files to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We utilize unstructured machine learning technologies to understand user behaviors and to provide user-specific recommendations.
Disclosure of your Personal Information
We consider your personal information to be a vital part of our relationship with you. There are, however, certain circumstances in which we may share your personal information with certain third parties, as set forth below:
- Business Transfers: As we develop our business, we might sell or buy businesses or assets. Your personal information may be transferred to a buyer or other successor in the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution or similar event in which personal information held by us about our site users is among the assets transferred.
Agents, Consultants and Related Third Parties
We sometimes hire other companies to perform certain business-related functions. When we contract another company to perform a function of this nature, we only provide them with the information that they need to perform their specific function. For instance, we use an outside credit card processing company to bill you for goods and services. These companies are not permitted to use any personal information that we share with them for any other purpose aside from providing services to us.
- Legal Requirements: In certain situations, DG Winemaking may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. We reserve the right to disclose your personal 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 similar legal process served on our site. We will take reasonable steps to ensure that we only collect that personal data that is relevant for the purposes for which it is to be used. Furthermore, we will not process your personal information in a way that is incompatible with these purposes.
Control of your Personal Information
When you register, or otherwise give us personal information, our site will not share that information with third parties without your permission, other than for the limited exceptions already listed. It will only be used for the purposes stated in this privacy policy. We will also give you the ability to opt out before we disclose your personal information to a third party or use your personal information for purposes that are fundamentally different than the purpose for which it was originally created. You may sign-up to receive newsletters or other promotional communications from us. If you would like to discontinue receiving this information, you may update your email preferences by using the “Unsubscribe” link found in emails we send to you or by contacting us at info@dgwinemaking.com with a subject line of “Unsubscribe,” and we will remove you from our promotional email list within 7 business days. You may not opt out of emails we send regarding your membership subscription or upcoming events you have registered to attend.
Access to your Personal Information
Upon request DG Winemaking will provide you with information about whether we hold, or process on behalf of a third party, any of your personal information. To request this information please contact us at info@dgwinemaking.com.
We will provide you with the means to ensure that your personal information is correct and current. If you have filled out a user profile, we will provide an obvious way for you to access and change your profile from our site. We will even allow you to completely delete your profile along with all personal information associated with that profile, although this option may significantly degrade your experience with our platform. If you wish to make this request, please contact us at info@dgwinemaking.com. We will respond to your request within a reasonable time-frame. If you would like view your personal information that we hold at any time, you may access your profile from our website.
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Security of your Personal Information
The security of your personal information is important to us. Every page on our site is rendered via an encrypted connection using Secure Socket Layer (SSL). Therefore, when you enter sensitive information (such as a username and password or credit card number) on our registration forms, your information is sent over an authenticated and encrypted connection using the Secure Socket Layer (SSL). We store your personal information only on servers with limited access that are located in controlled facilities, and use a variety of technologies and procedures to protect your personal information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. Nonetheless, no communication via the Internet can ever be 100% secure. Accordingly, you are advised to use caution and discretion when determining what personal information to disclose to us via the site. If you have any questions about security on our site, contact us at info@dgwinemaking.com.
Use of Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We and our partners use cookies or similar technologies to make our site easier to use. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.
Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject cookies, you will not be able to access our site.
We partner with third parties to either display advertising on our website or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our third party partners may use technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on this website and other sites in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests.
Anti-Spam Policy/Opt-out Choice
We are committed to providing users of this site with the choice to receive or not receive marketing-related e-mails and/or communications from us. We only send commercial e-mails to registered users, subscribers and affiliates with relationships with DG Winemaking and its team. We offer e-mail recipients the opportunity to opt-out of further communications in every commercial e-mail. If you would like to opt-out of receiving further communications, please follow the directions in the e-mail received or contact us at info@dgwinemaking.com.
Please note that we may not include the opt-out information in e-mails that are transactional in nature and are not marketing communications (i.e., e-mails concerning your order, the website’s Terms and Conditions of Use, etc.). If you have questions or concerns regarding a non-commercial e-mail, please contact us.
Links to Other Web Sites
This Privacy Policy applies only to the site. Our site may contain links to other web sites not operated or controlled by us (the “Third Party Sites”). The policies and procedures we described here do not apply to the Third Party Sites. The links from our site do not imply that we endorse or have reviewed the Third Party Sites. We suggest contacting those Third Party Sites directly for information on their privacy policies.
Enforcement and Dispute Resolution
We will conduct compliance audits of our relevant privacy practices to verify compliance with this policy.
Any questions or concerns regarding our use or disclosure of Personal Data should be addressed to us at info@dgwinemaking.com. We will investigate and attempt to resolve any complaints and disputes regarding the use and disclosure of Personal Data in accordance with the provisions of this policy.
Contact Information
Questions or comments regarding this policy should be submitted to DG Winemaking by e-mail at info@dgwinemaking.com.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
As www.dgwinemaking.com/winemakers evolves, our privacy policy will need to evolve as well to cover new situations. To ensure that you are kept informed of changes check this document periodically as we will update the date at the top of the document any time we make a material change. If we do elect to revise our Privacy Policy, we will post the revised policy on this page and will indicate at the top of this page the date this policy was last revised. Your continued use of the site after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to abide by these or any future version of the Privacy Policy, you do not have permission to use or access (or continue to use or access) our site.
