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Privacy Policy

We are building a strong community based on transparency and trust. Part of achieving this goal involves working with information that helps us understand what customers want when they visit our site and our affiliates site.

COPYRIGHT

All rights reserved. No part of this site may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material (including translations), photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission from The Wine Girl, LLC. The blog content and opinions expressed in this site are solely my own, or the opinions of our contributing staff or The Wine Girl team.

Excerpts (no longer than a short paragraph) and links to this site are permitted, providing that full credit is given to The Wine Girl with clear and specific direction to the original content.

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DISCLOSURE

The Wine Girl accepts forms of compensation and is a member of the affiliate Boisset Collections. The recommendations and offers expressed in this site are in partnership with Boisset Collection. This program is designed to provide a means for Boisset Ambassadors to earn income for direct-to-consumer product placement. 

This means that when you purchase wine and/or wine products from clicking on a provided link and are re-directed to purchase products from Boisset Collection, I receive a commission at no extra cost to you. I only ever recommend wines and products that I truly believe in and would consume/use myself.  

PRIVACY

This privacy notice for The Wine Girl describes how and why we might collect, store, use, and/or share (“process”) your information when you use our services, such as when you:

  • Visit our website at http://www.thewinegirl.com, or any website of ours that links to this privacy notice
  • Engage with us in other related ways, including any sales, marketing, or events

INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE US

In several areas, we ask you to provide information by filling out and submitting an online form. The Wine Girl do not process sensitive personal information. We ask for your name, email address, and contact information so we can follow up on your inquiry and order with Boisset Collection. We may contact you if we have a question about your order. We may ask for credit card information so we can fulfill your order through the Boisset Collection website, and so we can provide this information to the company or companies who process your credit card payment.

INFORMATION WE SHARE WITH OTHERS

We do not, under any circumstances, sell your information to anyone. Period. We may share your data with third-party service providers who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. We have contracts in place with our third parties, which are designed to help safeguard your personal information. They will not share your personal information with any organization apart from us. They also commit to protect the data they hold on to in our behalf and to retain it for the period we instruct. The third parties we may share personal information with are as follows:

  • MailChimp & MailChimp widget plugins
  • Vimeo video
  • Google Analytics

 

Anonymous visitor information is recorded by Google Analytics and used by The Wine Girl to obtain site statistics. This information is not shared or sold to anyone. Ever. Google Analytics records which browser you use, how you found this site, and tracks hourly/daily/weekly/monthly visitors.

INFORMATION WE DO NOT SHARE WITH OTHERS

The Wine Girl does not share, sell, or trade email addresses, information collected as part of a survey, or specific details about you or your household. We do not contribute to or participate in shared or cooperative databases, which give other companies access to your personal information. We do not release credit card or financial information for use by other companies, except Boisset Collection to fulfill orders. For both privacy and security purposes, all transactional information communicated between customers and The Boisset Collection site is transmitted in an encrypted format, and all credit card information is deleted from their servers immediately after card authorization.

INFORMATION FROM THIRD PARTIES 

We may receive information from public databases, marketing partners, social media platforms, and other outside sources. 

INFORMATION SAFETY

We have organizational and technical processes and procedures in place to protect your personal information. However, no electronic transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. 

Questions or concerns? The applicable privacy law mean you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, depending on your geographical location. Reading this privacy notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. 

If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact hello@thewinegirl.com. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

ADVERTISEMENTS

We may contract with third-party marketing companies to serve advertisements on our behalf across the Internet. They may collect non-personal information about your visits to our website, and your interaction with our products and services. They may also use non-personal information about your visits to this and other websites to target advertisements for goods and services. These targeted advertisements may appear on other websites that you visit. The anonymous information is collected using technology such as Cookies and Web Beacons, which are an industry standard. No Personally Identifiable Information (“PII”) is collected in this process.

You may opt-out of the use of your information for tailored advertising purposes. To learn more about the use of this information or to choose not to have this information used by our third-party advertising partner by opting out, please visit the Network Advertising Initiative by clicking here. If you delete your Cookies, use a different browser, or buy a new computer, you will need to renew your opt-out choice.

EMAIL SUBSCRIPTION & NEWSLETTER 

We ask you to provide a name, email address and profile information. We send our Newsletter, our email update on new releases, products, and wine information, to subscribers only. Unsubscribe instructions are in each edition of the email. We do use email as a means of receiving feedback from our customers, and we encourage you to email us with your questions or comments. We read every email we receive. We do not sell or share email addresses.

HOW TO REMOVE YOUR NAME FROM OUR MAILING LIST

Email us at hello@thewinegirl.com

LINKS TO BOISSET COLLECTION AND OTHER SITES

We provide links to Boisset Collection and other sites that we think you will enjoy. These sites operate independently of us and have established their own privacy and security policies. For the best online experience, we strongly encourage you to review these policies at any site you visit.

MY ACCOUNT WITH BOISSET COLLECTION

When you create an account with Boisset Collection, they ask for your name, address, phone number, email address, and a username and password. They use this information to fulfill your orders and to enable time-saving features like express checkout, wish lists, and saved baskets. Boisset Collection do not share or sell this information.

CHECKOUT WITH BOISSET COLLECTION

When you make a purchase or join the Wine Society (aka Wine Club) your credit card will be processed by Boisset Collection. Please check your credit card statement to verify that the charges have been properly processed. We do not share any other information with third parties, except in the case of contact or order information needed to fulfill your order. Boisset Collection do not share or sell email addresses.

INFORMATION PRACTICES

The Wine Girl is always looking for ways to improve our site’s features and services and to improve the way we communicate our information practices. As a result, we are regularly making improvements to our website and this statement is updated from time to time. We are committed to making our website’s content accessible and user friendly to all. We will never change our policies about releasing information to third parties without first notifying all customers and providing them with the opportunity to “opt-in” for correspondence from other companies. We view information practices as an ongoing effort; to provide the best possible experience for our audience.