Privacy policy
Welcome to our Privacy Policy. Your privacy is important to us.
It is Blackwood Wines’ policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to www.blackwoodwines.com (hereinafter, "us", "we", or "www.blackwoodwines.com"). We hope the following statement will help you, the consumer, understand how we collect, use and safeguard the personal information you provide to us on our site (“the Site”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources, nor does the Privacy Policy apply to any other websites that you may be able to access from the Website, each of which may have data collection, storage, and use practices and policies that differ materially from this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website, but does not constitute any representation or warranty. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
If you use or purchase goods or services from us via the Website, you agree to the terms of this privacy policy. If you do not agree with these terms, do not use the Website.
Gathering of Non Personally-identifying Information
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Blackwood Wines collects non-personally-identifying information that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Blackwood Wines’ purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Blackwood Wines’ visitors use its website. From time to time, Blackwood Wines may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Blackwood Wines’ also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users. Blackwood Wines’ only discloses logged in user IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
Contact Forms
We keep contact form entries indefinitely for customer service.
Sharing Data
We use the following platforms to power features on our Website. Each platform has their own Privacy Policy.
Advertisements: Advertising partners may set cookies, which allow an ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Blackwood Wines and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Aggregated Statistics: Blackwood Wines may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Blackwood Wines may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Blackwood Wines does not disclose your personally-identifying information.
Analytics: We utilize Google Analytics on the Website to better understand how users use features available to them. Google Analytics has their own Privacy Policy.
Embedded Content from External Websites: Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Links To External Sites: Our Website may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.
Email Address: we do not sell or share your email address with other providers, other than to enable us to send newsletters and updates to you.
Our site does not share any personal data with anyone, unless previously stated.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Blackwood Wines’ websites choose to interact with Blackwood Wines in ways that require Blackwood Wines to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Blackwood Wines gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for an account at https://www.blackwoodwines.com to provide a username and email address. Users can see, edit, or delete their own personal information at any time. Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Protecting Your Information
Blackwood Wines is the sole owner of the information collected on our Website. Any data that we store about you is not accessible to the public. Any sensitive information that we collect from you is encrypted, a standard internet security measure. We do everything in our power to protect user data offline as well by restricting access to information to only those who need the information to perform a specific job. All employees are kept up to date on the importance of keeping customer data secure and safe at all times.
The information you provide to Blackwood Wines on this site is only used to send you our offers, and to process and ship your order. We may also use this information to send you information regarding new features, services and special offers from us. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others, except as otherwise disclosed in this statement. Although we use outside shipping companies 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, and will never release any account or personal information to any third party other than specified in this policy unless we are given explicit authority to do so by you.
Your Data Rights
If you have an account on this site you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that your Personal Information will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy. You hereby acknowledge that we are not responsible or any such inadvertent disclosures or any intercepted information sent via the internet, and you hereby release us from any and all claims arising out of or related to the use of intercepted information in any unauthorized manner.
Cookies
To enrich and perfect your online experience, Blackwood Wines uses "Cookies," similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Blackwood Wines uses cookies to help Blackwood Wines identify and track visitors, their usage of http://www.blackwoodwines.com, and their website access preferences. Blackwood Wines visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Blackwood Wines' website, with the drawback that certain features of Blackwood Wines' website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Blackwood Wines' use of cookies.
E-commerce
Those who engage in transactions with Blackwood Wines by purchasing Blackwood Wines' services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Blackwood Wines collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with Blackwood Wines. Blackwood Wines does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described in this Privacy Policy. Visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Blackwood Wines may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Blackwood Wines' sole discretion. Blackwood Wines encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
If you have a question or concern regarding this Privacy Policy you may email us at patrick@blackwoodwine.com. In your email please express your question or concern with as much detail as possible.