Privacy & Security
Pairings Wine & Cheese® Privacy Policy
Welcome to www.PairingsWineAndCheese.com! Your privacy is our priority and we have created a website that protects and respects your privacy. Our Privacy Policy describes our commitment and practices regarding collection, use, and disclosure of information that you may provide to us through this website.
The Information We Collect
Your personal information is collected only when you register with our site, place order for yourself or for a gift, or join a Pairings Wine & Cheese Club. We then may ask for your name, email address, shipping address, billing address, phone number or credit card information.
We do not collect any personal information about you if you choose to visit our site anonymously and do not register, place an order for yourself or for a gift, or join Pairings Wine & Cheese Clubs. We may collect anonymous, aggregated information that helps us with site management. This can include information about pages visited, the amount of time spent visiting the site, and the number of visitors to the site.
We also may collect information by using cookies. We use cookies to gather general visitor information, track visits to our website, improve our site, and enhance you visit experience. Cookies do not contain any personal information, such as your name, address or credit card information. Cookies are small data files that web sites place on your hard drive for record keeping purposes when you choose to visit those sites. We do not use cookies to retrieve information from your computer that was not originally sent in a cookie and will not do so without first obtaining your express consent.
Browsers are initially set to accept cookies. You can set your browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent.
What We Do With the Information We Collect
Pairings Wine & Cheese is the sole owner all the information collected on this site. We do not sell, share, exchange, transfer or rent your personally identifiable information to outside parties. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in any of the following ways: to personalize your experience, to help us to better respond to your individual needs; to improve our website; to improve our customer service; to help us to respond to your customer service requests and support needs more effectively; to process transactions; to deliver the purchased products; to administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature; to send periodic email, company news, updates, related product or service information, etc.
How We Protect Your Information
Your Pairings Wine & Cheese shopping experience will always be safe, secure and protected. We use a variety of security measures to maintain the privacy and safety of your personal information when place an order or access/provide your personal information.
We take reasonable steps to protect your personally identifiable information as you transmit your information from your computer to our site and to protect such information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
All private information you give us, including financial or credit information, is encrypted and transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to our payment gateway provider's database. This information is available only to those who have authorized access rights to such systems and agree to keep the information confidential. After a transaction is completed, your private information is not retained by or stored on our servers.
You may securely access the personal information you have submitted to Pairings Wine & Cheese by selecting "Your Account" and editing the information as it currently exists in our system. You may also access your information to update or delete it by sending an email to info@PairingsWineAndCheese.com.
Compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act
Pairings Wine & Cheese is in full compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent. All users of our site may make any changes to their information at anytime by logging into their control panel and going to the 'My Account' page.
Protection of People Under 21 Years of Age
Pairings Wine & Cheese does not knowingly sell our wine and cheese pairings or club memberships to or knowingly collect information from people under 21 years of age. We accept orders only from people 21 years of age or older. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 21 years old or older.
Agreement
Whenever you submit information to this site, you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
If Pairings Wine & Cheese makes changes to this Privacy Policy, the revised policy will be posted on this site. Please check back periodically, and especially before you provide any personally identifiable information.
Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding our privacy policy or about our site, or have suggestions on how we can improve our site, please email us at info@PairingsWineAndCheese.com or call us at 800.503.6493.
