Privacy Policy

 

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Privacy Policy

 

How we collect, use, and protect your personal information.

Last updated: 23 March 2025

This Privacy Policy describes how Wine and Decanters collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit, use our services, or make a purchase from wineanddecanters.com or otherwise communicate with us.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using and accessing any of the Services, you agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described. If you do not agree, please do not use or access any of the Services.

Policy Updates

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, including to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Site, update the "Last updated" date and take any other steps required by applicable law.

Data Collection

What Personal Information We Collect

The types of personal information we obtain about you depends on how you interact with our Site and use our Services. The following sections describe the categories and specific types of personal information we collect.

Directly from You

  • Basic contact details including your name, address, phone number, email.
  • Order information including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment confirmation, email address, phone number.
  • Account information including your username, password, security questions.
  • Shopping information including the items you view, put in your cart or add to your Wishlist.
  • Customer support information including communications you send us through the Services.

Through Cookies

We automatically collect certain Usage Data about your interaction with the Services. To do this, we may use cookies, pixels and similar technologies. Usage Data may include device information, browser information, network connection details, your IP address and other interaction data.

From Third Parties

  • Companies who support our Site and Services, such as Shopline.
  • Our payment processors, who collect payment information to process your payment and fulfill your orders.
  • Third parties we work with may automatically collect certain information using tracking technologies such as pixels, web beacons, SDKs, and cookies.

Data Usage

How We Use Your Information

Services

Providing Products & Services

To process payments, fulfill orders, send notifications, manage accounts, arrange shipping, and facilitate returns and exchanges.

Marketing

Marketing & Advertising

To send marketing communications by email, text or postal mail, and to show tailored advertisements on our Site and other websites.

Security

Security & Fraud Prevention

To detect, investigate or take action regarding fraudulent, illegal or malicious activity. Keep your account credentials safe and confidential.

Support

Communicating with You

To provide customer support, improve our Services, and maintain our business relationship with you.

Data Sharing

How We Disclose Personal Information

In certain circumstances, we may disclose your personal information to third parties for legitimate purposes subject to this Privacy Policy:

  • With vendors or third parties who perform services on our behalf (e.g., IT management, payment processing, data analytics, customer support, cloud storage, fulfillment and shipping).
  • With business and marketing partners, including Shopline, to provide services and advertise to you.
  • When you direct or consent to our disclosure of certain information to third parties, such as to ship products or through social media integrations.
  • With our affiliates or otherwise within our corporate group, in our legitimate interests to run a successful business.
  • In connection with a business transaction such as a merger or bankruptcy, or to comply with any applicable legal obligations.

Categories of personal information disclosed in the past 12 months:

Category Categories of Recipients
  • Identifiers such as basic contact details and certain order and account information
  • Commercial information such as order information, shopping information and customer support information
  • Internet or other similar network activity, such as Usage Data
  • Vendors and third parties who perform services on our behalf (such as payment processors, fulfillment partners, and data analytics providers)
  • Business and marketing partners
  • Affiliates

Cookies

Our Cookie Policy

Like many websites, we use Cookies on our Site to power and improve our Services, remember your actions and preferences, and run analytics to better understand user interaction. We may also permit third party providers to use Cookies on our Site to better tailor services and advertising.

Most browsers automatically accept Cookies by default, but you can choose to remove or reject Cookies through your browser controls. Please note that removing or blocking Cookies can negatively impact your user experience and may cause some features to work incorrectly or no longer be available.

Your Rights

Your Rights & Choices

Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the rights listed below in relation to your personal information.

Right to Access / Know

Request access to personal information we hold about you, including how we use and share it.

Right to Delete

Request that we delete personal information we maintain about you.

Right to Correct

Request that we correct inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.

Right of Portability

Receive a copy of your personal information and request transfer to a third party.

Restriction of Processing

Ask us to stop or restrict our processing of personal information.

Withdrawal of Consent

Where we rely on consent to process your data, you may withdraw this consent at any time.

Right to Appeal

Appeal our decision if we decline to process your request by replying directly to our denial.

Communication Preferences

Opt out of promotional emails at any time using the unsubscribe option in our emails.

Additional Policies

Security, Retention & International Users

No security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee "perfect security." We recommend that you do not use unsecure channels to communicate sensitive or confidential information to us. How long we retain your personal information depends on factors such as maintaining your account, providing the Services, and complying with legal obligations.

We may transfer, store and process your personal information outside the country you live in, including the United States. If we transfer your personal information out of Europe, we will rely on recognized transfer mechanisms like the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses.

Other

User Content, Third Party Links & Complaints

The Services may enable you to post product reviews and other user-generated content. Content submitted to public areas of the Services will be accessible by anyone. We are not responsible for the privacy or security of any information you make publicly available.

Our Site may provide links to third-party websites. We do not guarantee and are not responsible for the privacy or security of such sites. If you have complaints about how we process your personal information and are not satisfied with our response, you may lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

Have a privacy question?

Email us at info@wineanddecanters.com — we respond within 24 hours, Monday to Friday.

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